std.unittests vote tally

spir denis.spir at gmail.com
Tue Feb 8 09:00:45 PST 2011


On 02/08/2011 04:54 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> I would point out, however, that it would be rather silly to include
> assertThrown and not assertNotThrown. Good unit tests should test_both_  that a
> function succeeds as it's supposed to_and_  that it fails as it's supposed to.
> So, I would hope that people vote in favor of assertNotThrown.

I do agree failure cases must be tested (maybe even more) and are very often 
neglected by programmers in unittests. But in a no-throw case the proper 
assertion is just a regular assert (at least, in my use of unittests):
	// dunno the syntax
	assertThrown ( 1/0, DivisionByZero );
	assert ( 1/1 == 1 );
If 1/1 throws DivisionByZero, I get all the information I need. Reason for my 
question mark about including assertNotThrown. When do I need it? What new does 
it bring?
Sorry, I should have asked/commented earlier on this point (but had too much...).

Denis
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