[dev] [commits] Horde branch master updated. 793c96d68d8efdb94f3184b9a67ae3f03ddda755

[Ralf Lang]

Am 12.11.2012 22:58, schrieb Jan Schneider:
> 
> Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
> 
>> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>>
>>>> The branch "master" has been updated.
>>>> The following is a summary of the commits.
>>>>
>>>> from: fbac4359f7c5f4b12dcf330dabc7228e1aa64762
>>>>
>>>> c6ee180 Remove unneeded autoload includes
>>>
>>> Unless I'm missing something, they are (or at least were at some
>>> point) necessary to run individual unit test, opposed to a complete
>>> test suite for a library.
>>
>> I've never personally assumed that we would run tests separately (any
>> tests I have written won't work this way).
>>
>> It would be a real PITA to have to include the Autoload library in
>> every single individual unit test.  The harder it is to create a unit
>> test, the less motivation there is to create such tests.  If this is
>> really a requirement, I personally will condense all UnitTests into a
>> single file so I don't have to deal with this kind of overhead crap.
> 
> How is copy and pasting a single line overhead crap? I run the full
> suites 99% of the time too, but the larger the suites get, and the more
> often you only need a single test out of the suite for tracking down a
> bug, the more annoying it is if you have to wait a minutes for each test
> run. I do this only once in a few months but then it comes handy.
> And a unit test purist will of course tell you that it's a key point to
> be able to run individual small tests, but I won't, and please don't
> take a too close look at my Horde_Group or Horde_Share tests.

More importantly tests should be able to run in any given order. I don't
think a single include makes it too hard, although it is right: It
should be easy to write tests. The difficulty I have writing tests does
not come from the number of include lines but from setting up scenarios.

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