From: James Davis <jd204@...>
Date: 2003-03-01T06:05:43+09:00
Subject: Test Unit help

I'm new to unit testing, and test-first development.  Sometimes I
would like to run tests from within other tests rather than recoding
and maintaining a test in two places.  Sometimes it helps to pass in
an argument as shown below.  In Test::Unit 0.1.4, the first example
test_do_some_work(w=@worker) worked fine, but the second
test_do_more_work(w=@worker) failed to run.  Now, in 0.1.8, both fail
to run.  I'm using ruby 1.6.8 on Windows.  Questions:  Is this
behavior by design?  Why?  Is it a bad idea to do what I am trying?
Thanks,


require 'test/unit'
require 'work.rb'

class TC_Work < Test::Unit::TestCase
  def setup
    @worker = Worker.new
  end

  def test_do_some_work(w=@worker)
    s = 'a'
    i = 25
    assert_equal('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', w.do_some_work(s, i))
  end
    
  def test_do_more_work(w=@worker)
    s = 'abc'
    i = 4
    assert_equal('zbczbczbczbc', w.do_more_work(s, i)) 
  end
end


Jim Davis