Re: tools and testing

Plenty of existing end to end tests function with mocked out external tools.
Any reason this can't be done for your pull request?

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:18 PM, Russel Winder <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2017-04-18 at 20:48 -0700, Bill Deegan wrote:
> > Would it be possible to mock the dub tool for a unit test?
> > (Or even for a E2E test?)
>
> I had sort of arrived at having to do that anyway to avoid the need for
> the dub program on the test server. I think we have to assume the Dub
> tool always does exactly what is says it does and so ignore it for all
> the tests. If I extract the subprocess call into a separate Python
> function, that enables mocking. For testing the basic stuff this should
> be OK. I have created a special case of the unit-threaded package
> because it needs a special builder for writing suite files. Most of
> that is already amenable to unit test, but not end-to-end unless dub is
> available.
>
> I will set about putting these tests in place, but given the SCons test
> infrastructure a full end-to-end system test may have to be left to
> what happens in the field.
>
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