From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-02-16T05:12:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to skip tests

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Tim Pease wrote:

>> 
>>   class MyTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
>>     def test_foo
>>       ...
>>     end
>> 
>>     def test_bar
>>       ...
>>     end
>> 
>>     if Time.now.wday == 0
>>       skip :test_foo, "The frambulator isn't available on Sundays"
>>     end
>>   end
>> 
>
> Now you have test names in two places, and when someone renames
> :test_foo to :test_frambulator ??  Whoops!
>
> I like the idea of having a skip assertion inside the test, and it has
> to be first assertion used otherwise an exception is raised.
>
> TwP

why not block form


   class MyTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     def test_bar
       assert this

       skip :sometimes, Time.now.wday == 0 do
         assert sometimes
       end

       assert that
     end
   end

obvious it would be augmented with loggig like

   skipping section(sometimes) of test_bar...


function name scraped with caller[0]...


-a
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