[Laszlo-dev] lzunit improvment [Was: testing]

[Henry Minsky]

lztest was printing the name of the test method that failed, but not
the class (subclass of TestSuite) that it belonged to.



On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:58 PM, P T Withington <ptw at pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2008-12-02, at 15:31EST, André Bargull wrote:
>
>>
>> On 12/2/2008 8:17 PM, P T Withington wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2008-12-02, at 11:30EST, André Bargull wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've changed this line in lzunit.lzx (in "Test#fail(..)"):
>>>>>
>>>>> this.result.addFailure(message.toString());
>>>>
>>>> to:
>>>>>
>>>>> this.result.addFailure(this.constructor.classname + "#" +
>>>>> message.toString());
>>>>
>>>> to get the test name.
>>>
>>> If you turn on backtrace, failures should be echoed to the debug console
>>> and should include source file/line (and a backtrace).  Is that not working?
>>
>> Don't know, most times I don't work with backtrace turned on...
>
> Well, for future reference:  If you are trying to figure out where a unit
> test is failing, turn on backtraces -- then errors get file/line annotation.
>
> But, I'm confused by your (and Henry's comments):  Are we talking about
> lps/components/lzunit?  Because that already captures the test name when
> there is a failure and reports it in the display.  If I'm missing something,
> please file an improvement and give me an example of where lzunit is failing
> to tell you what test failed.  (I know a lot of people have poked at lzunit
> since I first built it and our error strategy has evolved a lot, so maybe I
> am just confused about what the problem is.)



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Henry Minsky
Software Architect
hminsky at laszlosystems.com