Re: [Chicken-users] Scheme testing suite

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Kon Lovett wrote:
> On Jul 4, 2006, at 4:56 AM, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>
> > felix winkelmann wrote:
> > > On 7/3/06, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > Is anyone aware of a testing suite for any Scheme implementation 
> > > > that's
> > > > under a MIT or BSD license and could be lifted for Chicken?  It would
> > > > aid the testing of builds.
> > >
> > > Additionally, there is Jaffer's r4rstest (it's in the "tests" 
> > > directory in the
> > > chicken darcs repository).
> >
> > srfi-64 seems to be the correct building block for testing suites.
> > http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-64/srfi-64.html
> > Of course this is only mechanism, not an actual test suite.
>
> Uhh, thanks (not) for the implied "dis" of "test-infrastructure". 
> (Actually SRFI-64 is pretty good. I'm just PO'ed after all the work I 
> put into "T-I" & nobody uses it but me.)

Since I don't even know what test-infrastructure is, and Googling on the 
subject of "Scheme testing" immediately yielded SRFI-64, I think you 
have a burden of advertizement to fulfill before assuming a "dis."  
Actually I just posted on comp.lang.scheme to find out if anyone is 
actually using SRFI-64.  It certainly wasn't obvious to me after 
Googling about that anyone cares about it.  The concept is correct 
though: a standard way to perform unit tests in Scheme.  Per Bothner's 
point is that Scheme needs contractual / legal proof of compliance for 
things like government contracts.  Without standard test suites there is 
no possibility of such compliance.

Now I'm Googling on test-infrastructure.scm to see what that's about.  
The first hits that come up are about Chicken 1.63.  Probing with 
slightly more patience, I see that it's an Egg requiring Chicken 
2.225+.  Now what I want is an actual Scheme testing suite, not merely a 
mechanism for building such a suite.  I bet you're going to tell me that 
nobody's done that sort of thing with test-infrastructure.scm.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every