[racket-dev] testing

I think a convention is good. I also think that this kind of
organizational principle (where do tests go? How do you name the
"main" file in some package? etc) is completely appropriate for a
style guide somewhere, so maybe I'm missing something, tho.

Robby

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> One of the responses to the draft of the Racket style guide contains the following paragraph:
>
>
>> There should be unified way to test collections. Let's say I fix
>> something in collect `foo', there should be an obvious way to run
>> `foo''s tests. Currently, the closest we have would be to look in
>> `tests/foo', and see if anything looks like an entry point.
>> Standardizing on test suite entry points would make it easier for
>> people to run tests after fixing bugs in collects that are not their
>> own. Such an entry point could be that each collect `X' is required to
>> have a `tests/X/run.rkt' file that, when run, runs the test suite for
>> `X'.
>
>
> I don't consider this topic appropriate for the style guide.
> But I consider it important enough to bring up for discussion.
>
> QQQ: Is there a policy that spells out testing collections?
>
> QQQ: Should we try to formulate one or leave individual testing styles alone?
>
>
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