Re: unit tests vs... the current test_suite -- October 31, 2006 - 17:15

On 11/1/06, Gary S. Thompson <garyt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?

That's a good point, the minimise code and tests can be spun off together.