[Chicken-users] Re: egg unit testing

[Kon Lovett]

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On Dec 8, 2006, at 7:38 AM, Ivan Raikov wrote:

>   Well, it's certainly not going to hurt anybody, and it might be
> somewhat useful for future "forking" of the egg repository. Though of
> course some eggs might later have bug fixes that don't necessarily
> break compatibility with older versions... whatever happened to the
> idea of having unit tests for eggs?

Working on it. The unreleased version of 'test-infrastructure' (ver  
2.0) has almost all the features necessary for batch testing. Missing  
are system resource limits (rlimit) statements & a test runner  
process (the largest collection is at the level of ".scm" of tests  
for now; being able to state sets of ".scm" would be nice).

Changes:

Thread safety. All global variables removed.
Smaller macro expansion.
Lower overhead.
Source expansion control API.
Test procedure definition syntax.
Anonymous test definition syntax.
*test-package & *test-case short forms. Replaces test-group.
Test procedure state API.
Test result filtering.
Immediate test result output. (stream of tagged alist to stdout)
The '() will be ignored as a WARNING.
Better testeez support

But I have issues w/ the source expansion philosophy of Peter  
Keller's original, which I never changed. I would like to do the  
following:

- - Switch to a minimal source expansion method

- - Remove syntax-case requirement. i.e. add non-hygienic versions of  
the macros

- - Then I guess rename the thing "test-base"

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