+1 on everything you said! On Sun, 9 Sep 2018 01:04:35 +0200 Kevin Townsend <ke...@adafruit.com.INVALID> wrote:
> The additions to the newt tool in recent releases makes things like > package creation much easier, and pulling the code from Github is a > good idea to keep things up to date. > > In my own workflow, unit tests are a major part of package development > since I can quickly and easily run functions natively, testing and > updating the code accordingly. I simply force an intentional assert > failure to see the printf debug output, edit code, run the unit test > again, and on and on. > > I'm also of the opinion that unit tests, aside from their obvious use > improving code reliability, are an excellent source of 'documentation' > since you can see the APIs in use for specific edge cases, and they > are more likely be be kept up to date with breaking API changes. > > I wanted to propose the idea of having the '/test' infrastructure are > part of the default pkg when you run 'newt pkg new'. You currently > need to manually create the files for this and it's a lot of > repetitive copy, paste, rename type work that could be avoided, and > might push more people to write unit tests? > > My +1 would be to have /test as a standard feature of any package, > and you can always delete it, but other people might find this delete > burden inappropriate? > > Kevin
