[racket] Price of RackUnit

From: John Clements (clements at brinckerhoff.org)
Date: Wed Jul 6 21:30:19 EDT 2011

On Jul 6, 2011, at 6:19 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:

> 6 minutes ago, John Clements wrote:
>> 
>> In my experience, the one compelling reason not to include unit
>> tests in the same module is to trim the 'require' chain for modules
>> that are included in the DrRacket startup.
> 
> Yeah -- but much more than just drracket.  (And that's in addition to
> the discussion on dependencies.)  Consider some tests that start some
> subprocess that is supposed to help testing -- you wouldn't want that
> on normal runs.

Right, yes, that's my point: by putting them in a test suite, you avoid running the tests unless the test suite is explicitly evaluated.  Am I misunderstanding you?

John

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