test dir name (WAS: Re: [Phpwiki-talk] cvs access to dfrankow)

[Dan F. <dfr...@cs...>]

I am blocked on this until we choose a name for 'testbox'.

Comments?

Dan

Dan Frankowski wrote:

> Reini Urban wrote:
>
>> Dan Frankowski schrieb:
>>
>>> One of the changes is to add an error handler (instead of just an 
>>> assert handler). This is useful because then if there is incorrect 
>>> PHP syntax, vars missing, etc., the tests don't run. In other words, 
>>> the tests get more picky, which is good. When they get more picky, 
>>> they want an existing testbox with some stuff in it (InterWikiMap, 
>>> global_data, a few other things). Thus, I want to make a "testbox" 
>>> in CVS with the right stuff and check it in, as I did on our local 
>>> copy.
>>>
>>> Since I do not wish to make changes that you don't want, please tell 
>>> me that you approve. Then I'll go ahead and make the unit test 
>>> changes, including adding a CVS-tracked "testbox" with stuff in it.
>>
>>
>>
>> approved.
>
>
>
> Cool. I won't add it until we have a name you like (see below).
>
>> but the name "testbox" compared to out intermediate ".testbox"
>> might not fully understandable. can you think of a better name?
>
>
>
> I'm sorry, I didn't understand this.
>
> I picked "testbox" to mean a "test sandbox." I agree it is not a great 
> name, but I'm having a hard time thinking of better ones. A list of 
> possibilities:
>
> 1. testbox
> 2. test_sandbox
> 3. sandbox
> 4. backend_dir
> 5. backend_data
> 6. testdb
>
> Any preferences? I'm not sure any are very good.
>
>> In a perl CPAN test framework the call it "t" (for the logic) and 
>> "output" (for the output which should be tested against).
>
>
>
> Neither "t" nor "output" is appropriate here. It's more like "input". 
> I guess that's another possibility.
>
>> i'm not quite accustomed to the java unittest structure.
>
>
>
> Java has no standard proposal for the input data upon which to base 
> unit tests.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
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