Re: unit tests vs... the current test_suite -- October 31, 2006 - 16:54

Edward d'Auvergne wrote:

> > >> 2. I think the unit_test folder will need to be a mirror of the relax
> > >> source tree otherwise there will be name space clashes...
> > >
> > >
> > > Could the files be named something like
> > > 'test_specific_fns_model_free.py'?  That would avoid many directories.
> > > I'm not worried about complexity with the test suite though - if it's
> > > a (partial) mirror of the normal tree, then it should be pretty simple
> > > to work out.
> > >
> > A more contentius statement is that it should be a mirror orf the normal
> > tree, most files should have test cases.... ;-)
>
>
> I wouldn't call that contentious, it's pretty logical.  By partial I
> meant leaving out the 'minimise' directory

Actually minimise seems  to be an ideal case for  unit tests as it is 
quite low level ;-)   So I guess it should go in for now and  then we  
extract the tests back out again when you come to spin it off?

regards
gary

> as that will be spun off
> into it's own project and the 'sample_script' and 'docs' directories.

Obviously these aren't candidates for tests ;-)

> Edward
>
> .


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