About lonnnnng tests
Avi Bryant
avi at beta4.com
Sun Oct 3 18:06:18 UTC 2004
On Oct 3, 2004, at 7:57 PM, Doug Way wrote:
>
> On Sep 24, 2004, at 3:12 PM, stéphane ducasse wrote:
>
>> I'm creating some tests for the decompiler (inspired by the one in
>> SystemDictionary) and they are realllllly slow.
>> So I'm thinking to create some kinds of SlowTestCase that could be
>> turned off/on on demand. But I would like to know if someone already
>> proposed a solution to that problem.
>
> I think this is pretty common with unit tests... we had a similar
> situation where I used to work. I think we ended up just having a
> different test suite for the slow tests, and they were run nightly,
> instead of being run whenever you checked in code. But having a
> SlowTestCase class might be an okay way to handle it too.
And on the flip side, it might be nice to have a QuickTestCase too,
that can be run all the time - like, every time you accept a method...
Avi
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