From: Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@...>
Date: 2003-07-17T08:30:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Test::Unit no tests specified

Gennady [mailto:gfb@tonesoft.com] wrote:

> If you define emptiness as not asserting anything in the 
> method, you could do above mentioned by resetting a flag 
> (TestCase instance variable) before calling a test method and 
> check it after the method returns. Asserts would set this 
> flag and if the flag is not set it would mean that no assert 
> had been called.

True, but I don't think that's a good definition of empty test. As Brian
said, I might only conditionally assert, or I might simply have a #flunk in
a test (which won't get called if the test succeeds).


Nathaniel

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