On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 12:27 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 5/23/06, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On the other hand, it would speed up things quite a bit. > > > > Correct. > > I'm not against changing to fpcunit, but it will require again a lot of > > work... > > Yes much faster! I just finished a case in point on our code. One of > our developers (new to unit testing) used the Setup and TearDown > methods in a TestSuite to setup a db connection, do a test and close > the connection. Over and over and over. The 27 tests took over > 30seconds to execute. > > I relocated the db connection code to a test decorator (part of > fpcUnit and took 15 lines of code to implement) and now it creates a > single connection for the lifetime of all tests in that TestSuite. > Time to run those 27 test are now 1.9 seconds! > > I can't see how something like this is possible with the way the fpc > team does testing.
Well.... fcl/dbtests ... They are still slow, though. Since the data must get be clear between every test. But there's still a lot to improve.. Joost. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
