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From: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
To: Edwin Steiner <edwin.steiner@gmx.net>
Cc: mauve-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: inconsistent test names
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1132869012.5568.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051118190804.GA10989@localhost.localdomain>

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Hi Edwin,

On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 20:08 +0100, Edwin Steiner wrote:
> Currently I'm developing an automated testing framework for
> cacao[2]. You can see preliminary results here (large page!):
> 
> http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/cacaojvm//tgolem/2005-11-18T03-22/mauve.html

Very nice overview!

> One problem I've run accross is that some mauve tests use
> inconsistent names to report PASSes and FAILs. The most troublesome
> cases are those, where a *named* check/fail is followed by an
> *unnamed* one.
> [...]
> If you also think these cases should be fixed (by naming the checks),
> I would be happy to provide patches. Makes more sense than teaching
> my tgolem to work around these cases.

That does make sense to me. Probably the best approach would be to have
an explicit harness.checkPoint("<descriptive string>") after each named
check followed by unnamed ones. But I would be happy with any patch that
solves this issue.

Cheers,

Mark

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-24 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-18 19:08 Edwin Steiner
2005-11-24 21:50 ` Mark Wielaard [this message]
2005-11-25 19:28 ` Tom Tromey

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