[racket-dev] testing

At Thu, 4 Aug 2011 12:11:27 -0400,
Matthias Felleisen 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? 

The above suggestion does not rule out individual testing styles. It
only mentions a standardized entry point. What the test suite does
afterwards can still be left to the programmer.

Vincent