Re: [Adonthell-devel] on test scripts

[Kenneth Gangstø]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:43:09 +0200, <address@hidden> wrote:

> Yesterday I have started getting the old item test scripts working with  
> the v0.4 item code.
>
> Unlike the previous tests, these require a couple of extra scripts (the  
> various item templates), so I decided to add a 'data' directory to the  
> test folder. In there, we can store the data required by various tests.
>
>
> That also gave me another idea. At present, all my test scripts generate  
> more or less meaningful output on the console. To check whether  
> everything is still working after a change to the engine, one has to run  
> all scripts and scan the output for errors. That's not very nice at  
> best, and it's easy to miss subtle errors . So I'll write a little test  
> script that catches all output and makes a diff to a previously stored  
> reference output. That way, we could test the engine more  
> systematically, thus finding bugs that might be introduced by changes to  
> existing code.

This sounds alot like Unit Testing from XP programming.
Check out http://cppunit.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi or alot of sites
out there describing unit testing.

- Kenneth