From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-07-17T17:17:21+09:00
Subject: Re: memcache wrapper testing

On Jul 16, 2007, at 16:18, David Weldon wrote:

> I have a wrapper class for memcache-client (adds a little extra
> functionality for something specific I need). Does anyone have any  
> good
> ideas for how to do unit testing on it?
>
> The issue I have is that the memcache will become full of data from  
> each
> functional test I run. It would be nice to have a "clean slate" each
> time I run. To me, the obvious thing would be to start and stop a
> memcached server for each of my tests, but that seems like a major  
> pain.
> Is there something I'm missing like a clear_memcache function or
> something?

Look at how the memcache-client tests are written.  They never touch  
a server.

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