[Scons-dev] tools and testing

[Bill Deegan]

Unitesting is there to make sure that no unintention breakage occurs.
I'm not willing to take a major piece of code into SCons core without tests.

That would violate SCons's practices.

-Bill

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:17 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 2017-04-17 at 08:26 -0700, Bill Deegan wrote:
> > Russel,
> >
> > Seems like pieces of it (including a new Node type) should be unit
> > testable.
> > Also, Can Dub pull from a local repository, or is there a stable, but
> > small
> > web accessible repository?
>
> I agree the _Library class should be amenable to some unittesting,
> though it is not clear how much would be actually useful and how much
> would just be testing to the sake of having tests. Influenced by Cope,
> I am less enamoured of unit tests than I used to be but totally for
> end-to-end tests. I will though be adding some tests for Dub now that
> it is working for the ApproxGC project.
>
> Dub can pull from a local repository as well as the central one, I
> shall have to find out if the central one can be excluded, I think it
> can. In this case it would be possible to construct a local repository
> and then run an end-to-end test which is good.
>
> This leaves only the question of which project to construct a package
> for. I am thinking that this could be another tool in the D armoury:
> build the local code and upload a package to the Dub repository.
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