[Cuis] Canonical test cases?

[H. Hirzel]

On 7/20/15, Phil (list) <pbpublist at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Hannes,
>
> On Sun, 2015-07-19 at 23:52 +0000, H. Hirzel wrote:
>> On 2/23/15, Phil (list) <pbpublist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 07:53 -0800, Ken.Dickey wrote:
>> >> On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 08:38:44 +0000
>> >> "H. Hirzel" <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > As Casey writes "The hard part is time and energy to do so."
>> >> >
>> >> > So what can be done with minimal effort and big impact?
>> >>
>> >> Looking around, I see that I could make some simple naming changes for
>> >> test cases.
>> >>
>> >> E.g in package Crypto-Nacl there are test cases (class NaclTests)
>> >>   testExampleHighlevel -> testNaclHiglLevelAPI
>> >>   textExampleLowLevel -> testNaclLowLevelAPI
>> >>
>> >> We could use other words, but API is shorter than Usage, Example,
>> >> Interface.
>> >>
>> >> Having specific test names end in 'API' would clue me in.
>> >>
>> >> Adding 'Nacl' means I can use the existing message finder to search
>> >> for
>> >> 'api' and note testNacl*API methods.  This lets me find API tests
>> >> specific
>> >> to Nacl.
>> >>
>> >> And we can do this as I get the chance.
>> >>
>> >> Other suggestions?
>> >
>> > I started playing around with a couple of example test cases to see
>> > what
>> > I ran into and came up with a distinct class to store all of these per
>> > test category (i.e. under Test-Files a class ApiFile which could have a
>> > method testWriteTextFile)  The rationale was that it might make sense
>> > to
>> > keep these test cases separate from traditional test cases which are
>> > free to make calls that users of the class (i.e. who are calling the
>> > supported API) should not.
>>
>> Phil,
>>
>> where do you keep this class ApiFile?
>>
>
> It's in Packages/Tests.pck.st package. After loading it will be listed
> in the Tests-Files category.


I loaded the class ApiFile only and I get 3 tests passed and 1 failure
in Cuis 2.4-2424.

Can you confirm this, Phil?

>> regards
>>
>> Hannes
>>
>
> Thanks,
> Phil
>
>
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