Re: Test case terminology (Kelly Anderson)

"Kelly Anderson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.dotnet.nunit.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Feb 13, 2008 10:34 AM, Charlie Poole <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Kelly,
>
> > The Theory nomenclature is internally consistent, and in this
> > context superior. The downside is that it's not backwards
> > compatible into the NUnit 2.x name space.
>
> As you know, I'm not sold on the Theory nomenclature for this
> use. However, it's clear we will have to introduce new
> terminology if we create something that works differently.

I'm not for getting rid of the Test/TextFixture terminology. At most,
we might consider making Theory a synonym for Test... I don't know
what you call a collection of Theories... Theorumi? ;-)

> It seems to me that doing so is what allows us to be
> backward compatible, while changing how TestFixture/Test
> works might be considered incompatible.

Yup.

-Kelly

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