From: ethica1 <Muath.Alkhalaf@...>
Date: 2008-05-21T17:25:03+09:00
Subject: Re: How to implement this in unit testing

On May 21, 12:34 am, "Muath A. Khalaf" <moa...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>
> Hi,
> If I want to implement something like this in Ruby Unit Testing:
> test_z_lessthan_20
>     x = choose(1..5)
>     y = choose(0..3)
>     z = x * y
>     assert(z < 20)
>     end_choice
>     end_choice
> end
>
> The idea here is to run the previous test for all x and y values. My
> initial idea is to parse previous code and generate something like
> this:
> test_z_lessthan_20
>     [1..5].each do |x|
>         [0..3].each do |y|
>              z = x * y
>              assert(z < 20)
>         end
>      end
> end
> My question is what is the best way to parse previous code i.e. is
> there a parser where I will just change small parts of it to pasre the
> choose part.
> Also is there a way to implement the previous code dynamically during
> runtime or at least do the parsing and change on the fly instead of
> creating some code statically.
>
> Thanks

just small change as [1..5].each does not work correctly so I may
change it to [1,2,3,4,5].each