Improving unit tests

[Derek Parnell]

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 10:42:16 +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Derek Parnell <derek at psych.ward> wrote:

>> ** A variation of the assert statement that does not halt execution upon
>> finding an error. Instead, it just reports the error and moves on to the
>> next test.
> 
> Can't that be done by a library function? 
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> Seems like a lib could do this too.

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> Can that be done with a lib?

Sure they can all be done via library functions. No problem with that. In
fact I have a test_equal() and test_true() functions that implement this
functionality.

>> ** Nesting of unit test blocks.
> 
> You mean nesting unittest{  unittest{ .. } ..} What would that be for?

In conjunction with variable declaration scope within unittest blocks.

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