[ruby-talk:02017] Re: Extension and other testing

From: Andrew Hunt <[e-mail]>
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> Does Ruby have any sort of standard for testing extension modules
> (or even pure-Ruby code that is packaged separately?)
>
> One of the things that I think has contributed greatly to Perl's
> success is their standard of supporting "make test" with a few
> conventions such that all modules can be tested in a similar manner.

Also IIRC Perl (and I think Tcl, among other tools) also give a fairly
extensive list of what sorts of "make test" tests pass after you build them,
which increases your confidence (and that of the often less knowledgeable
support people that take over from you) that things really have built
correctly and that "make test" really did do something significant.

> I see that someone has been working on porting the xUnit test suite to
> Ruby, perhaps we could do something with that?  Certainly extension
> modules at least should have some standard "make test" target to
> verify proper operation.
>
> Any thoughts?

I think something along these lines would be a very good idea.

Conrad