Re: [Formsess-devel] Variables in tag attributes, automated tests

[Katana <ka...@ka...>]

Hi both of you,

> About test units/scripts: we don't have any (at least not that I know..)
> Betrand?
> I'm not familar with automated testing. Would you use PEAR's php unit(2)?
> What kind of tests would you create for formsess? (maybe you can just
> include your tests for the validate tag you talked about)
Several times, I have been thinking about writing Unit Tests for 
formsess. But I have to admit that due to my very little experience in 
that domain, and to the "complexity" of formsess environnement, I don't 
really know how to do that.

Formsess really has a specific architecture when compared to most libs 
(lots of different types of components: prefilter, validators, (php & 
js), tag functions, formsess class itself...).

By example, testing if formsesss still parses a tag correctly requires 2 
steps (prefilter => smarty function using tag class, and smarty function 
=> html). And of course both operations imply lots of logic and can't be 
reduced to a single method / function.

But of course I think that unit tests would be a good asset for the 
quality of the releases.

Pierre, if you have any hint about how unit tests could be implemented 
for formsess, I would be glad to spend some time on it :)

Bertrand