[Solar-talk] Solar Testing via external test library

[Rodrigo Moraes]

On 10/4/06, Travis Swicegood wrote:
> So...  I guess here's the question.  What does everyone (or anyone?)
> think about using an external testing library to handle the tests in
> Solar?

To be honest, I think that unless Paul loves Solar_Test too much ;-),
better would be to use an external library and redirect the efforts to
support and further develop Solar_Test to something else. I would say
the same for the docs generator, sorry, but, again, I would only
encourage this decision if someone is not too involved or "in love" to
discontinue these tools in benefit of the framework core. :-|

> I can write up a pretty quick scaffolding to handle tests in
> SimpleTest for Solar and get a patch out to the list if anyone's
> interested.  The was the test directory is structured right now, I could
> just add a tests/simpletest/ directory to contain the tests and start
> working from there alongside the existing tests and see where that gets us.

I've never used SimpleTest... but Marcus Baker was my favorite writer
in php|architect. :-) Unfortunatelly he left the "Test Pattern"
section, but his articles were so great. Jeff Moore, his sucessor, is
also very good.

Hmmm, back to the subject. I think it would be nice to use SimpleTest,
and I'm glad somebody here is involved with one of the big test suites
to build the tests.

rodrigo