Summary on unit testing situation

[Paul D. Anderson]

Sorry, this should have replied to the message asking for more info!

Paul

Paul D. Anderson Wrote:

> Wikipedia is usually a good place to start:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_test
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> A couple of  the references at the end of the Wikipedia article are pretty good, also. The Unit Testing Guidelines gives a pretty good breakdown of what to expect (or not) from unit testing.
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> Paul
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> Pelle Månsson Wrote:
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> > On 03/23/2010 08:10 PM, Trip Volpe wrote:
> > > Trip Volpe Wrote:
> > >> ...and if an assert fails in one test in a module, _all_ subsequent tests in that module will be aborted, even though this makes no sense.
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> > > Actually I said this wrong. It's worse than that: after one assert failure, _all_ further execution is aborted, meaning that even unit tests in _other_ modules will be prevented from running. And you can't change this behavior, even if you override the assert failure handler, since for some reason the compiler expects the handler to throw an AssertError, and if it doesn't, a segfault may result.
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> > The solution to this would be not to use asserts in unittests.
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