Re: [Cppunit-devel] include directory clean-up

[Baptiste L. <gai...@fr...>]

Quoting "Steve M. Robbins" <ste...@vi...>:

> On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 04:39:41PM +0200, Baptiste Lepilleur wrote:
> 
> > We had some talk about the namespace a while ago, and questions
> > about why so many stuffs were in the "extensions" directory. I think
> > the current directory orgnization in "include" can be confusing.
> 
> I agree with this sentiment.  It confuses me :-)
> 
> Unfortunately, I have more questions than answers...
> 
> I think that drafting an outline of the library will help in
> organizing the directory structure (and possibly the namespace
> structure).  Questions that I have, for example: what is the
> difference between an "extension" and a "helper"?  What is the "core"
> of the framework, anyway?

  I'll try to define those as I perceive them:

core: it is the minimal(not really) set of classes for unit testing. It 
provides the following functionnalities:
 - writing (TestAssert) and running test (Test). 
 - report test failure 
(TestCase,TestResult,Exception,NotEqualException,TestListener)
 - organize test in suite (TestSuite)
 I would also include:
 - being able to write a test in a single class method (TestCaller)
 - should be extensible

extensions: they extends the functionnalities provided by the framework.
helper(s?): they don't add functionnalities but make using existing 
functionnalities easier.


Well, I'll have to go back home. I'll extend a bit later on this that evening.

Later,
Baptiste.


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