Re: test driven development for GNUstep

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

discuss-gnustep-bounces+lars.sonchocky-helldorf=bbdo-interone.de@gnu.org 
wrote on 11.02.2004 09:27:56:

> 
> On 10 Feb 2004, at 01:17, Alexander Malmberg wrote:
> 
> > Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> >>
> >> I'd ideally like such a framework to be part of the GNUstep-make
> >> package so all developers
> >
> > By developers, do you mean all developers working on GNUstep, or all
> > developers using GNUstep?
> 
> My preference is all developers using GNUstep ... I think it gives a 
> sense
> of security to people if they can readily see the software passing a 
> load
> of tests (and probably makes it easier for them to contribute new 
> tests).
> IMO a major reason that the current testsuite seems to be little used is
> that it needs to be downloaded and installed separately.
> 
> It would be nice if anyone building GNUstep from source was able to do
> 'make check' to confirm that everything is working before they do their
> 'make install'. or perhaps to have a 'checkinstall' target which would
> build the library, run the tests, and install only if all the tests 
> passed.
> 

fully acknowledged.

Besides this having a test suite makes refactoring a lot easier. And we'll 
have a sanity check if a submitted patch will break anything (our policy 
would be: only apply the patch if the tests were passed)

greetings, Lars
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