From: Robert Feldt <robert.feldt@...>
Date: 2006-05-15T19:53:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Testing private methods

On 5/15/06, Peter Hickman <peter@semantico.com> wrote:
> Thank you that looks to be just what I need.
>
Since this is a bit "unsafe" (considering that some dev might use your
tests as a kind of API/code doc and might miss that they are private
or whatever) I tend to test my private methods in a separate TestCase
and/or name the test methods accordingly to make this "unsafeness"
clearer to the reader.

Example:

require 'test/unit'

class ClassUnderTest
  public :priv1, :priv2
end

class UnitTest_PrivateMethods_ClassUnderTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
  def test_01_private_priv1
  end

  # ...
end

class UnitTest_ClassUnderTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
  # "normal" tests goes here
end

Not sure if it really works but anyway...

I find the obj.send(:priv_method) technique a bit too cumbersome to
write if there are many tests.

Regards,

Robert