On 12/28/05, Vincent Massol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Sure but there's a very common use case for integration testing: the need > to > have environment setup before the test and to clean it after the tests. Of > course you could write all sort of plugin to that the plugin support doing > this itself but then you're no longer flexible and you're not providing a > solution to lots of other use cases. >
I think that was the jist of that irc conversation...is that still an integration test or is it something else, later in a formal testing strategy.. I know a lot of people approach things as unit tests - test code in the subproject integration tests - test subproject interactions, with stubbing of environmental factors and formally testing interactions between the project and other projects/dependent projects system tests - full system testing, including tests against a deployed system I had to scrape around for the right term for that last testing stage name...found it on wikipedia at the bottom of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_testing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_testing is the actual page for it, but the summary is: System testing is testing conducted on a complete, integrated system to > evaluate the system's compliance with its specified requirements. System > testing falls within the scope of Black box testing, and as such, should > require no knowledge of the inner design of the code or logic. System > testing takes, as its input, all of the "integrated" software components > that have successfully passed Integration testing and also the software > system itself integrated with any applicable hardware system(s). The purpose > of Integration testing is to detect any inconsistencies between the software > units that are integrated together called assemblages or between any of the > assemblages and hardware. System testing is more of a limiting type of > testing, where it seeks to detect both defects within the > "inter-assemblages" and also the system as a whole. > so that is where I am coming from.. :) it sounds like your example there ought to qualify as a seperate phase all together.. jesse -- jesse mcconnell jesseDOTmcconnellATgmailDOTcom
