On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 05:17:18PM +0300, Roman Cheplyaka wrote: > I can do that indeed, and I guess I could reimplement everything I have > at the moment on top of HUnit. > > However, an important part of functionality isn't there at the moment — > golden file management. You should be able to say, "for this test, > take its current output and write it to the corresponding golden file". > > In order to do that, you need to have access to the list of golden tests > in the suite. This is where implementation details of different test > frameworks start to matter. Probably one can make an abstraction over > test frameworks that would give the list of all golden tests. > (Although when you start abstracting over test frameworks, which are > abstractions themselves, it becomes somewhat funny.)
Ok, makes sense. I'm looking forward to give it a try, and see how it compares to using operating system primitives (say `cp') for "golden file management". > Speaking of such functionality, correct me if I'm wrong, but neither > HUnit nor hspec won't be able to support it anyway, because they > represent tests as opaque IO actions. It would be easy to extend Hspec to support this in the same way you extend test-framework to support this. It requires existentials; the only substantial difference that I can see is that test-framework already uses existentials, while Hspec does not. Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
