[racket] testing impure stuff

On Dec 22, 2013, at 1:54 PM, Manfred Lotz wrote:

> Hi there,
> I just wrote a file duplicate finder where I'm not quite sure how to
> build up my test cases.
> 
> The problem is that most of my test cases are impure. They rely upon a
> directory layout.
> 
> What is the best way to do this? Should I create a directory structure
> containing most (or better all) of my test cases, and then base my test
> cases upon the existing structure?
> 
> Or perhaps even better create my directory structure on the fly and
> build my test cases upon this?
> 
> 
> How do other people create test cases for impure situations?


I have written such a program several years ago (a primitive version) and I tested it by writing another program that generated tmp directories with certain characteristics. -- Matthias