[Gmailagent-devel] Re: My approach to a test suite

[Waseem S. D. <wd...@MI...>]

I've incorporated basically all of the changes of testlibgmail2_stas.py
into testlibgmail2, with basically one exception: I kept my original
class name -- I was envisioning a separate class for each "part" of
libgmail that we wanted to test, and didn't really understand your name.

I really do like the added verbosity, though. That's really what I was
looking for -- just wasn't sure how to make it happen, though.

However, my 25-contacts test seems to be failing this morning, where it
worked fine last night... which makes me unhappy. I'll look into that
later, I guess.

One question and one thought, though:

Question: Why the numbers after test (like test3_addContacts, or
whatever)? I previously thought that the tests needed to run in order -
this isn't the case anymore, so if those numbers are there to ensure
order, we may as well remove them.

Thought: I can understand why you don't like the
delete-contacts-every-time approach, but the advantage there is that we
start with a clean slate every time, and we don't need to worry about
maybe test suites that only half-ran, etc., before. This way you can run
the tests on any gmail account, not one you have to prepare by hand
first.

- W