[Laszlo-dev] problem porting lzunit to swf9

[P T Withington]

Ah, or, we could use the new proposed <function> tag...

But you're probably right.  Just have an API to add tests to the suite.

On 2008-07-04, at 09:08 EDT, Henry Minsky wrote:

> We don't have a good way right now to automatically enumerate the
> method names at runtime
> of a class. So I'm wondering if we should make an API call that you
> need to use in your test which
> explicitly adds a test method to a list of tests to run.  So you're
> required to define a method named "addTests"
> in your test case class. Then you also get to ensure the tests are run
> in a specific order as well.
>
>
>
>  <class name="MyTest" extends="TestCase">
>    <method name="testSomething">
>     ...
>    </method>
>
>    <method name="testSomethingElse">
>     ...
>    </method>
>
>
>  <!-- this method is required to be defined by the user -->
>    <method name="addTests">
>      this.addTest(testSomething);
>      this.addTest(testSomethingElse);
>    </method>
> </class>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 8:56 AM, P T Withington <ptw at pobox.com> wrote:
>> I modelled this on how junit did it. But maybe we could just make the
>> TestCase class add itself to a list in its construct or init method?
>>
>> On Jul 4, 2008, at 0:46, "Henry Minsky" <hminsky at laszlosystems.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The TestSuite class in lzunit relies on iterating over all the
>>> properties of a TestCase to find its methods who are named  
>>> "testXXX".
>>>
>>> It does
>>>
>>>          var sv = subviews[this.nextCase];
>>>          dw("TestSuite.initSuite: subviews[", this.nextCase, "] =  
>>> ", sv);
>>>          if (sv instanceof lz.TestCase)
>>>          {
>>>              for (var n in sv) {
>>>                  var t = sv[n];
>>>
>>> Which will not do anything useful in swf9, because methods are not
>>> properties.
>>>
>>> If the methods are declared public, then I could use the XML
>>> introspection feature of swf9.
>>>
>>> Or maybe we should have a more portable way to declare testcases,  
>>> like
>>> how lztest makes you
>>> add them explicitly..
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Henry Minsky
>>> Software Architect
>>> hminsky at laszlosystems.com
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com