Re: test driven development for GNUstep

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am Donnerstag, 05.02.04 um 23:53 Uhr schrieb Adam Fedor:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alex Perez
> > On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Adam Fedor wrote:
> > > The only disatvantage is that we already have 2000 or so
> > tests written with guile...
> >
> > Maybe we can all volunteer to rewrite a few of the more
> > important ones
> > first?
>
> Sure. In fact, there are a set of tests that are run on every class. 
> Many other tests are very similar, so perhaps someone could hack 
> together a simple parser to translate guile to Objective-C?
>
> We should probably settle on what kind of testing framework we will 
> use first...

From the ease of use I'd prefer OCunit but I my knowledge is not funded 
enough to know if there would be technical obstacles that would prevent 
us from using it (that is for testing GNUstep classes itself not work 
based on GNUstep).

If OCunit is not usable for this purpose I would strongly recommend 
using DejaGnu since it is widely proven to work. For instance GCC uses 
it. You can simply run it as part of the make process (make -k check). 
It even has the capabilities to send the test results somewhere. I 
haven't written a DejaGnu test myself yet but since all those GCC devs 
use it regularly it surely doesn't require you to have a PhD - and 
there are already some ObjC tests to learn from.

greetings, Lars