From: Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
Date: 2002-03-30T06:05:16+09:00
Subject: Re: RUNIT: mixin instead of inheriting?

ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) writes:

> I'm wondering if it's possible (or if it could be acheived without
> too much change to RUNIT) to mixin functionality from
> RUNIT::TestCase into a class instead of inheriting:
>
> Currently we have to do:
>
> class TestingMyDesign < RUNIT::TestCase
> ....
>   def test_MyDesign
>   ...
>   end
> end
>
> I would like to be able to do:
>
> class MyDesign < Design #I have a class to inherit from already
>   include RUNIT::TestCase
> ....
>   def test_MyDesign
>   ...
>   end
> end
>
> md = MyDesign.new()
> ....
>
> md.run_suite
>
> Would it make sense?

It might even work, but then the class you're testing would actually
be a test class.  Unit tests are supposed to use the objects they are
testing in a similar way a programmer would.  Actually making the
class being tested a unit test seems odd.  What is your motivation for
wanting to do this?


-- 
matt