Re: Unit test tool
Re: Unit test tool
- Subject: Re: Unit test tool
- From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 09:45:28 -0400
On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 07:39 AM, Poornima Ranganath wrote:
Are there any tools that will be fully automated for testing Cocoa
framework in ObjectiveC?
OCUnit *is* fully automated. I suspect ObjcUnit is as well. Setting
up OCUnit to run your unit tests every time you do a build in Project
Builder is very simple.
Unit tests are better called "programmer tests" - they are code written
by developers to verify that other code is working correctly. See
<
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?UnitTest> and
<
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ProgrammerTest> for details. More
specifically, see <
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TestDrivenDevelopment> for
details about why not wanting to "script" your tests is misplaced.
I doubt you'll find software that automatically generates unit tests
for Objective-C. I also doubt you'll find software that automatically
generates *useful* unit tests for any language.
There is software that generates unit tests out there for some
languages and frameworks, but typically all it does is generate tests
for exceptional conditions - overflow conditions, passing null, etc.
They verify your code doesn't do something wrong when passed wild
values, not that your code does something right when passed reasonable
values. You'd be better off doing TDD where possible.
-- Chris
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