From: Daniel Nugent <nugend@...>
Date: 2006-03-10T08:29:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Test Harness?

Is there a way to pass Rake tasks arguments?

I'd like to do something where I break my unit tests up into test
suites by just dropping them into folders and then being able to
invoke a Rake task like rake suite "sweet" or rake suite
"sweet/saccharine", if I wanted a test suite inside of a test suite.

Or, alternatively, I'd like to be able to invoke test cases named
"sucrose" by rake test_case "sucrose"

Disclaimer: I've read Rake tutorials several times in the past but
have yet to arse myself to start using it (which I should, because I
think I'm starting to exert more effor than is worthwhile keeping
tests organzied without rake), so I might've forgotten the part where
it says you can do exactly what I'm asking.

On 3/9/06, Ross Bamford <rossrt@roscopeco.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 01:56 +0900, Troy Denkinger wrote:
> > I'm starting to feel my way around in Ruby after having been a Perler for a
> > very long time.  I'm trying to figure out how to write a proper test harness
> > in Ruby and so far I'm running up against a brick wall.  All my classes have
> > good unit tests using Test::Unit.  However, I want to create a harness that
> > I can use to run all of the unit tests at a go and give me a success/failure
> > report across all tests.  Every time I make a significant change I have to
> > remember to run all my unit tests, which is error prone.
>
> I see you've had plenty of suggestions, but heres yet another variation:
>
>         $ ruby -e "Dir['test/tc*.rb'].each { |tc| require tc }"
>         Loaded suite -e
>         Started
>         .......................................
>         Finished in 0.25893 seconds.
>
>         39 tests, 101 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors
>
> That 'Loaded suite -e' thing is a shame though...
>
> --
> Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk
>
>
>


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-Dan Nugent