On Sep 29, 2011, at 12:10 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:08:49PM -0400, Chris McCormick wrote:
Good point. I am now sending Marvin a copy of the WebPd unit test
patches
licensed under BSD-3.
Cool!
I'm excited to look through these materials. I'm a Pd noob with a
lot to
learn and tests can serve as very enlightening documentation! :)
Sooner or later, I'll likely contribute unit tests, and I'm
confident in my
general testing expertise. I'm pleased to have started this
thread... Still,
it seems to me like the introduction of a testing framework ought to
move
ahead on its own, since there are already candidate frameworks
available.
There are several long-time Pd community members who believe that
the core
would benefit from the addition of unit tests. I'd like to add my
voice to
their chorus.
I would also like to opine that the addition of a unit testing
framework seems
like it would be a conservative, non-disruptive change. A public
API for the
the testing framework need not be exposed -- not right away, and
theoretically
never. Existing core code should require few if any changes to
accommodate a
test harness. Naturally, though, we would want the framework we use
to be the
best it can be.
What opinions are out there with regards to the two existing candidate
frameworks? What do they have in common? How do they contrast? Do
they
suggest improvements for each other?
We've known for many years that tests would be a really useful thing.
Its just a matter of someone doing the work. A few of us have done
some work here and there, as you have seen. But we haven't gotten a
coherent package. So I'll be happy to see you work on this :)
.hc
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