From: Its Me <itsme213@...>
Date: 2004-04-16T00:29:14+09:00
Subject: Re: test / unit question:  add "Warnings" to Failures and Errors


"Simon Strandgaard" <neoneye@adslhome.dk> wrote in message
> def test_something
>   skip('reason for skipping') if is_win98?
>   ...
> end
>
> def test_something
>   todo('what needs to be done')
> end
>
> They all are in the family of tests which cannot be executed for
> some reason.
>
> 124 tests, 300 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors,
> 26 not run (15 disabled, 8 skipping, 3 unimplemented).

Hmmm ... different categories of test results reported. Better than a
convention such as prefix "x".

test/unit has Failures (assert<x>) and Errors (throw or raise), but not
Warnings.

Perhaps test/unit could add some hooks so (something like) the following
would work.

class MyTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
    warnings :todo, :skip    #  :todo, :skip become warning categories
    def test_A
        warn(:todo, "excuse")  # reported in warn/todo category
    end
    def test_B
        warn("reason")    # warning in warn/other category
    end
end

test/unit could bundle some standard warning categories e.g. todo, skip,
disabled

Internally perhaps test/unit could define a new class to raise:

class TestWarning < StandardError; end

And rescue these separately from its current AssertionFailedError, reporting
these as warning.

124 tests, 300 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors,
 26 warnings (15 disabled, 8 skip, 2 todo, 1 other)
..