* David E. Wheeler <da...@kineticode.com> [2009-01-22 20:20]: > There will be loops with tests in them, and the number of > iterations of the loop will be independent of the code in the > test script, making it impossible to actually count the number > of tests with a computer until the tests have actually been > run. Which is how no_plan works.
The nice thing about data-driven tests is that in most cases the test program can programmatically derive the number of tests from the test data so it can set up a plan without the programmer having to count. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>