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On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Tim Ansell <mithro at mithis.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 14:35 +0800, Chiyuan Zhang wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I migrated the test cases from py.test to nose. I suppose you've already
>> known nose before, if you don't, just run
>>
>>   easy_install nose
>>
>> to get it and run `nosetests' to run the testcases. also, the default
>> target of the top-level Makefile runs the testcases against the guile
>> backend.
>>
>> nose is very similar to py.test, so the migration is almost trivial. I
>> renamed the environment from MODULE to BACKEND. I also renamed those
>> methods like passthru_test to check_passthru because I (and nose) am
>> confused by whether xxx_test or test_xxx should be run as the test method.
>>
>> In fact, I don't like py.test. The output is sometimes too clean but
>> sometimes too verbose. Until today it just fails silently on the
>> multi_vm testcase. I don't know what's wrong, I guess there are some
>> bugs in the vm, but when I added the verbose option, it runs perfectly.
>> However, I think I also need more consideration on this -- it may be
>> a very bad bug that is hard to find.
>
> This seems all pretty reasonable. Nose even has a deb package, you can
> do an "apt-get install python-nose" on debian systems.
>
>> Back to the test case. I arranged those existing test cases for schemepy
>> to the schemepy sub-directory. They'll be test suites for the interface.
>> I'll start to borrow test cases from PyPy Scheme. And most of the test
>> cases of pyscheme is merely Scheme code. They'll be put in the sub-directory
>> scheme.
>
> How is this going?
I only converted PyPy Scheme's test case currently. Most of the test cases
of PyPy Scheme is in test_eval.py. It is converted to the Schemepy interface
and passed with the guile backend. However, I have problem with the continuation
test case, so that is not included yet.

I'm currently working on porting pyscheme to schemepy's interface. As soon as
this is finished, I can port pyscheme's test cases too.
>
> I see that you have two directories now, they are
>  test_scheme
>  test_schemepy
>
> Can you add to the README what the various directories mean? Some better
> documentation about what you are actually testing (IE This file tests
> the conversion to the conversion to schemepy.cons class) in each file
> would be good too.
OK. That's a good idea.
>
> Tim 'Mithro' Ansell
>
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