Re: SchemeUnit redevelopment

Gordon Weakliem <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:21:43 -0700 (PDT)

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How would allowing assertions to capture arbitrary failure info break compatibility with 1.x? The way I read "break compatibility" means all tests written to 1.x would need to be fixed. Or does it just break custom assertions?

require/expose sounds awesome.

I wasn't aware there was a gui, I'll try to have a look and see what it's about. When you say drop the GUI and later redevelop it, I'm a little confused by the plan for the GUI, do you want to drop it or rewrite it?

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-----Original Message from Noel Welsh <noelwelsh-/[email protected]>-----

Development on SchemeUnit has been idle for a while and in
that time many improvements have been suggested and some
bit-rot has set it. I'm resuming development of SchemeUnit
and seeking feedback from the user community to guide the
next version.

My preliminary list of changes is below. It is likely it
will take several versions to complete this list and some
of
the changes with break compatability with the 1.x series.
To avoid excessive noise I'm asking everyone who is
interested in the future development of SchemeUnit to join
schematics-development, if interested in guiding the
developing, schematics-users if you merely want to stay
abreast of the latest developments. To sign up to either
list visit:

http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=19879

Thanks,
Noel

SchemeUnit Proposed Changes:

2.0

[DONE] Allow assertions to record arbitrary information
about
failure. This has already been implemented in 2.0 alpha
1. Breaks compatability with 1.x

Add setup and teardown actions for test-suites. Maybe
via
keyword arguments. May break compatability with 1.x

Drop support for GUI unless someone is willing to help
develop it.

Release as PlaneT modules in addition to Schematics
website

Add require/expose macro, aka glassbox testing. (I've
lost
the source to this, if you have it please send it to me)

If possible improve text-ui to display backtraces

Miscellaneous additional assertions:
- assert-regexp-match
- assert-not-false

Miscellaneous additional macros:
- (make-test-suite* suite-name (case-name case-body) ...)

to reduce typing for the common case of

(make-test-suite
suite-name
(make-test-case
case-name-0
case-body-0)
(make-test-case
case-name-1
case-body-1))

2.1

Port to SISC, Scheme48 and maybe R5RS.

2.2

Implement fold-tds, ala SSAX, for test-suites. This will
allow more flexible traversal of test suites, and in turn
more flexible reporting options

Provide more flexible reporting options:
- timing information
- log to disk

2.?

Additional add-on libraries:
- web testing (I have an existing incomplete framework)
- WebIt! (ditto)
- user contributions

Redevelop GUI and/or integrate w/ PLT's tool

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