Re: What I hate about *Unit frameworks.

Hi everyone!

John, usually I don't find the case "this test corrupts that test", and I
wrote thousands of tests.

Any example/case?

Angel "Java" Lopez
@ajlopez
gh:ajlopez



On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:30 PM, John Carter <[email protected]>wrote:

> **
>
>
> Most of them invest way too much effort to make up for the deficiencies of
> the Windows Operating system.
>
> The Component in a Computer tasked with managing concurrency, task
> separation, and ensuring full clean setup and tear down is....
>
> The Operating System.
>
> So if you want to be dead, 100% sure that this test doesn't corrupt that
> test... you use a process.
>
> Nope, not try / catch, not exception handling. That's a flaky almost
> solution.
>
> One test === One Process.
>
> Each process is an address space that appears.... and vanishes.
>
> But, but, but Processes Are HeavyWeight you can't create and run thousands
> of processes!
>
> Oh yes you can.
>
> Processes are lightweight under Unix and have been for decades.
>
> In fact much of the hype about threads is a result of Microsoft marketing
> spin to cope with the fact that Windows 3.1 processes were incredibly
> heavyweight kludges.
>
> In fact there are relatively few places where one should use threads when
> one can use processes.
>
> Want to run a thousand tests? Well, how many cores do you have? Let's keep
> every core 100% busy. One test, one core.
>
> But who is going to spin all those processes and mind the result?
>
> GNU parallel is a pretty nifty choice.
>
> Or maybe it is something the xUnit's should be doing.
>
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