Need feedback on simple idea
rrobbes
rrobbes at etu.info.unicaen.fr
Sun Apr 13 17:15:14 UTC 2003
Hi Andreas,
You should look at my BrowseUnit package on SqueakMap.
It basically allows you to do all you mention in a couple of
clicks, including amazing teleporation abilities ... :-).
Any suggestion and enhancements are of course welcome.
Romain Robbes
"Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
> Nevin,
>
> I don't think you got the point of what I was saying - which was that the
> overhead required to set up everything for testing a single method is too
> high. I'm sure there are many arguments against having tests literally
> embedded in methods (the major one probably that it breaks the "test first"
> approach) but I was mostly referring to the environment. For example, if you
> harden out some of those conventions then the environment could help you
> incredibly if you've just written a method Foo>>bar. When you indicate that
> you want to write a test, the system could automatically:
> * provide a category "FooBar-Tests" (depending on the category your class
> resides in)
> * provide a "TestCase subclass: #FooTests"
> * add a method "testBar"
> * hand you an editor for this test
> All of the above have to be done manually right now and even in the best
> case it'll cost you a couple of minutes during which you are simply diverted
> from what you really want to do. By the end of the day that's what gets into
> people's way if they just hack along.
>
> If you make it hard for people to write tests, then no tests will be
> written.
>
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
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