I just got burned by tests not inheriting from a TestCase superclass… I note that in 2017, Cyril tried to argue to get this changed to work just like normal objects (proposing that for P7 tests works like any other object…) but I think it was just too difficult to argue against a decision made so long ago.
I tried to follow the 2017 logic about why you would want tests to operate differently than other objects, but I couldn’t understand it. I did see that some numbers run against Squeak Trunk argued that it was fine …. but I’m left wondering about all the people with individual projects like me that just expect objects to behave like objects and not have unexpected behaviour. Deviating seems like extra complexity that I’d prefer not to have to worry about. Given Pharo is revisiting the concept of testing (with Dr Test) - could we possibly introduce the normal object behaviour somehow? Possibly we could have a new superclass for Tests - and use it to move forward without breaking existing stuff and those who want to stick with this other way of thinking? Tim
