On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Michael Love <michaelisaiahl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi Bioc team, > > Can we add some testthat instructions to the unit testing page: > > http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/unitTesting-guidelines/ > > I presume the instructions would be simply to follow the basic > testthat instructions, e.g.: > > https://github.com/hadley/testthat/blob/master/README.md > http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/tests.html > > ...add testthat to Suggests, put tests in files starting with 'test' > inside tests/testthat/ and write a file tests/testthat.R with specific > code in it. I think this is what the packages here are all doing: > > http://bioconductor.org/help/search/index.html?q=testthat > > best, > > Mike > > ~~~~ end of request, details continue below ~~~~ > > My reasons for wanting that Bioconductor support testthat in addition > to RUnit is that RUnit does not make it very simple to run all tests, > which should be a very simple thing to do. > > With testthat, this is simply a call to test() which lives in > devtools. With RUnit you have to do: > > runTestSuite(defineTestSuite("myTest", "inst/unitTests/","test_")) > > Although that's not quite enough. That will not run the same test as > Bioconductor, or as if you ran the code in the test files in your > console, because defineTestSuite picks rngKind = > "Marsaglia-Multicarry" and rngNormalKind = "Kinderman-Ramage", which > are not the current R default random number generators. > > So then you have to do: > > runTestSuite(defineTestSuite("myTest", "inst/unitTests/","test_", > rngKind = "default", rngNormalKind = "default")) > > Or you could call BiocGenerics:::testPackage(), but we probably all > agree it's better that unit testing have a documented, exported > function. > > It's probably past time that we export/document that function. Or perhaps even contribute it back to RUnit. > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
