Re: Test labels
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 10:28:45PM -0600, Andy Lester wrote: I think even better than ok( $expr, name ); or ok( $expr, comment ); is ok( $expr, label ); RJBS points out that comment implies not really worth doing, and I still don't like name because it implies (to me) a unique identifier. We also talked about description, but description is just s overloaded. I prefer name or label to comment. Name does not imply 'unique' for me, just like 'John Smith' is not expected to a unique name of a person. Mark -- http://mark.stosberg.com/
Re: Test labels
On Tue 07 Dec 2004 05:28, Andy Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think even better than ok( $expr, name ); or ok( $expr, comment ); is ok( $expr, label ); or ok ($expr, indicator); or ok ($expr, tag); for me the name/comment/label/tag/indicator/... is just a tag (which does not have to be unique) to be able to find back my test in the test script. As long as all tests run fine, you don't read them, so tag sounds best to me RJBS points out that comment implies not really worth doing, and I still don't like name because it implies (to me) a unique identifier. We also talked about description, but description is just s overloaded. -- H.Merijn BrandAmsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.5, 5.9.x, and 809 on HP-UX 10.20 11.00, 11i, AIX 4.3, AIX 5.2, SuSE 9.1, and Win2k. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] send smoke reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], QA: http://qa.perl.org
Re: Test labels
I don't really agree that comment implies not really worth doing. I think those inclined to not put a name/comment/label on their test will not do it whatever we end up calling it. IMO the only way to get people to do it would be to make it required, and I don't think that is a good idea. I like label, but to me that also implies a (somewhat-less-than-name) unique identifier. I also like H. Merjin's suggestions of tag, however it might be confusing to the more web-inclinded. (Tag as in shirt-tag, not as in HTML-tag) Personally I use them like comments, so that makes the most sense to me. Steve On Dec 6, 2004, at 11:28 PM, Andy Lester wrote: I think even better than ok( $expr, name ); or ok( $expr, comment ); is ok( $expr, label ); RJBS points out that comment implies not really worth doing, and I still don't like name because it implies (to me) a unique identifier. We also talked about description, but description is just s overloaded. Thoughts? xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance
