I stumbled across this idea when Markus Gaelli chose it as a PhD topic about ten years ago (man, I'm old). The main idea was not to provide tests, but examples that happened to have assertions. The goal was twofold: (1) provide live documentation with real objects, (2) provide another way of composing tests.
The project did not really come to fruition, but I still think this is highly interesting topic. Part of the ideas were later implemented in Phexample (http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Phexample/Phexample/) and JExample (http://scg.unibe.ch/research/jexample). Cheers, Doru On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Andy Burnett < andy.burn...@knowinnovation.com> wrote: > I have just come across the Pyret language. It looks interesting, but the > part which particularly caught my interest was the way that they had built > the unit tests directly into the classes, rather than having separate test > classes. > > I think this is an interesting idea. It seems as though it would be easier > to manage writing tests if everything were in one location. And this - > might - mean that people were more likely to write tests. > > Has anyone else looked at this, and have an opinion on whether it would be > a good addition to Pharo 4/5/X? > > Cheers > Andy > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"
