SUnit: Skipping tests?
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Tue Mar 28 07:30:02 UTC 2006
>
> or any other form that does not exercise any assertion in the SUnit
> framework. It seems to me that such tests are really "empty tests",
> e.g., by having no assertions there isn't really a statement made
> whether this test succeeded or not (one might equally claim "it
> failed" - namely "to test anything"). In any case, I think a good
> solution would be to simply disregard any tests that don't assert
> anything.
For testing some XMI stuff I could not write tests the way I wanted
without having to patch the library. So
one test is really if by doing an action nothing breaks. I did not
use self assert: true but could be a good idea.
> If you mean to do this, you could just add a "self assert: true" at
> the end of it. At least that's a statement that the test is indeed
> doing something useful, like exercising code and asserting that it
> really does run through without any other exceptions.
>
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
>
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