1st of all, thanks everyone for the prompt response regarding my previous question
about return values.
Now a style question. I'm doing a database oriented module, and I have rouhly the
following tests:
1.- Test wether module can load ( just a require inside an eval ).
2.- Test a bunch of functions for string processing (escaping) etc.. which don't need
server connections.
3.- Test connection to the database.
4.- Create a test database, connect to it
5.- Create test tables, populate them, testing insertion functions on the way.
6.- Lots of tests which need the test database.
7.- drop test database.
I have 1 in a file, 2 split in several. 3 can be put in it's own file, but the
problems arrive with steps 4-7. Steps 5 and 6 are lengthy, and I'd like to split them
into several files, giving files 4, 5a, 5b, 5c, 6a, 6b, 6c..6z, 7 but in this case
steps 4-7 should be run to completion. This goes against the recomendation of having
tests which can be run separately ( and takes slightly longer as i need to reconnect
on each test, but tests don't need to be so efficient). So I'm now putting 4- in a
single file, but it's becoming huge ( hundreds of tests ). My question is..
¿ Which aproach is better, have a single independent huge test file or several
interdependent smaller ones ( w/ notes in the readme stating test dependence ) ?
Regards.
Francisco Olarte Sanz.
