tests in XML [Re: Re: PULL Parser in PHP]

lrargerich wrote:

> Good I'll see your work by monday and send ideas/suggestions thinking
> about a XSLT implementation. I guess that the XML test docs should be
> delivered as strings maybe in CDATA sections of the XML test vocabulary.
>
> Then it will be easy to write a XSLT stylesheet , something like this:
>
> <test name="initial test">
> <xmlsource><![CDATA[ <foo></foo> ]]>
> <testCode>
> <createParser/>
> <setFeature name="BLAH" value="blah />
> <expect type="START_DOCUMENT" nameNS="" localname="" />
> <execute method="next()"/>
> <expect type="START_TAG" nameNS="" localName="foo">
> <execute method="isEmptyElement()" into="t1" />
> <assertVar name="t1" value="true" />
> <execute method="next()"/>
> <expect type="END_TAG" nameNS="" localName="foo" />
> <execute method="next()"/>
> <expect type="END_DOCUMENT" nameNS="" localName="" />
> </testCode>
> </test>
>
> For methods returning values we can use
> <execute method="getName()" into="foo">
> <assertVar name="foo" value="root">
>
> execute executes a method and if into is defined assigns the return
> value of the method to the variable indicated by name in the into
> attribute.

that unfortunately looks to close to programming language and i am
just a bit scared that it is too flexible - it is not possible
check that wrong method is executed
    <execute method="getFoo()" into="foo">


> into indicates the name of a variable, assertVar tests if a variable
> has the desired value if not it throws an exception.
>
> Then a test case is easy to run if no exceptions then test=ok ,
> exceptions may come from the parser (example an expect that fails) or
> from failed asserVars.
>
> It will be important to keep the test vocabulary as minimalistic as we
> can so the XSLT stylesheets are simple and easy to write allowing test
> cases in many different languages.
>
> Just some thoughts for you to start
>
> --- In xmlpull-dev@y..., Aleksander Slominski <aslom@e...> wrote:
> > lrargerich wrote:
> >
> > > I love the idea to write the tests as XML, then convert the XML to
> > > X-Language using XSLT, then run the code and the code should directly
> > > show if the tests passed or failed.
> >
> > that is very interesting idea ! XSLT could be also used to get test
> results
> > nicely converted into HTML output...
> >
> > > Based on this assumption I think that the vocabulary for defining the
> > > tests should be refined to allow an easy XSLT translation to code, If
> > > you can think about the vocabulary and/or format I may try to write
> > > the XSLT to PHP and someone (?) can write the XSLT to Java. Then it
> > > will be easy to write tests and as long as the XSLT exists you can
> > > test it in all the supported languages.
> >
> > if you want to give it a try please do it and we will make then sure
> > that schema for XML is defined in such way to make job of writing
> > XSLT as easy as possible!
> >
> > i am not very good in XSLT but i think that it is possible to call
> > java code directly from XSLT?
> >
> > i will work on it during weekend and  i will post a preliminary
> > and simple XML schema for tests and java driver to execute them.
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > alek
>
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