Re: [Swig-devel] Using language specific unit testing facilities

[Jason S. <jas...@gm...>]

Hi William,

On 1/25/06, William S Fulton <ws...@fu...> wrote:

> Hope you don't think I'm being a killjoy with the perl test framework.

No - not at all!

I hope you don't feel that I'm being a pain in the ass ;-)

> Hopefully you can see the reasoning. I also wouldn't put in junit as it
> requires a separate download which is hard to test for in configure.in.

Ok.

With Perl, the matter is slightly different. I believed Test::More is
available with all recent versions of Perl (5.005 at least), but
perhaps I was mistaken - I can check. As junit is independent, that
logic makes sense.

> Personally I think junit is overkill for what are basically really
> simple tests. For a Java only project it would make more sense, but
> we've got to deal with more than a dozen languages now. Actually for
> Java and SWIG getting Java code to compile covers 90% of the testing
> required as most of the time we need to check the types come out right
> as it is a strongly typed language.

ok.

Cheers, jas.