Re: [Objectscript-devel] [OBJECTSCRIPT] Issue #OBJS23 - need unit test framework for oscript.jar

I have seen that, but I'm not entirely sure if that is what we need... 
that framework may help, but that is really only a tiny part of the 
entire problem, which is coming up with what to test, and how to test 
it adequately with a compact and maintainable test suite.  I think 
different specific areas in the scripting engine have fairly specific 
requirements:

    parser/compiler/interpreter:  each test here needs to run twice, 
once with the compiler and once with the interpreter.  This is the area 
that I am the most fuzzy on... I can obviously have tests for all the 
basic grammar productions (for loop, if statement, try/catch/finally, 
etc.), but to some extent there needs to be tests that combine 
productions... for example at one point I discovered a bug with nested 
try/catch/finally's.  This is the main reason that I'd like to study 
how other languages handle this.

    data/builtin-operators:       fairly simple for unary operators, but 
for binary operators there are n^2 combinations of input types -> 
result... maybe a good candidate for something table based.  This 
probably does not need to be run in both interpreted and compiled mode.

    java<->script bridge:         convert script types to java types and 
visa versa... again, probably can be table based, and probably doesn't 
need to be run in both interpreted and compiled mode

    misc:                         abstract-filesystem, node-evaluator 
caching, etc.



On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 01:00 PM, Brad Hyslop wrote:

> By the way, there is a unit test framework somewhere in there: it is 
> what is used to unit test the series.  Its a java version of something 
> I developed for C++, and I was relatively happy with how it came out.  
> See:
>
>  /vobs/java/esf/dot/series/StringSeriesUnitTest.java
>
>
>
>
> Rob Clark wrote:
>
>> You can view the issue detail at the following URL:
>> <http://icandy.homeunix.org:443/scarab/issues/id/OBJS23>
>>
>> Type :        Enhancement
>> Issue Id :    OBJS23
>> Reported by: Rob Clark
>>              rob...@ma... - (rob...@ma...)
>>
>> Details:
>>
>> Headline: need unit test framework for oscript.jar
>> Description: We need a more extensive regression test for 
>> ObjectScript.  Not entirely sure what the scope of this is, but we 
>> should look to other languages (perl comes to mind) to see how they 
>> handle this sort of thing.
>>
>> Severity: Minor
>> Functional Area: other
>> Status: New
>>

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