Am Sonntag, den 09.10.2005, 14:09 -0700 schrieb L505: > Since I don't exactly know what test frameworks are, even after reading about > them for the > past few years, I'm going to ask some risky questions. This is not a flame > thrower attempt > at the test framework advocates, I'm just trying to understand what exactly > they do, from a > "newbie to test frameworks" perspective. > > Do test frameworks > -cause you to spend lots of time writing test frameworks instead of program > code? > -even apply to languages with compilers and strong typing? > -cause you to write your programs to conform to the test framework, instead > of the program > framework? > -have any actual statistics of success? > -have popularity statistics that prove they are popular (in the Delphi > community) as stated > in the article? > -have any real world examples of how they helped personX fix problemY in > significantly less > time? > > Hoping the answers are no, yes, no yes, yes, yes.
Too much to explain here imo. I think this article will put some light on what testing is good for and how it works: http://junit.sourceforge.net/doc/testinfected/testing.htm There is more starters documentation at the JUnit site if you like reading... HTH, Marc _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
