--- Begin Message ---Hi James, Thanks a lot for this very interesting historical perspective :) Still I think TestAsserter is not the most intuitive name. Asserter is not even an English word if I am not mistaken.Thanks again Abdelghani > On 10 Oct 2018, at 1:57 pm, James Foster <smallt...@jgfoster.net> wrote: > > Hi Abdelghani, > > I don’t have immediate access to earlier versions of SUnit (oh, that it were > on GitHub!), but my recollection is that TestCase was originally a root class > but duplicate code with TestResource inspired a refactoring that called for a > common superclass. The name TestAsserter was chosen to reflect the common > behavior. > > James > >> On Oct 9, 2018, at 8:12 AM, Alidra Abdelghani via Pharo-users >> <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org <mailto:pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>> wrote: >> >> >> From: Alidra Abdelghani <alidran...@yahoo.fr <mailto:alidran...@yahoo.fr>> >> Subject: Why is the root class of tests named TestAsserter? >> Date: October 9, 2018 at 8:12:11 AM PDT >> To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org <mailto:pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to understand how classes in smalltalk projects are named. >> Something I can hardly understand is why the root class of the Test >> hierarchy is named TestAsserter? >> What is the intention behind the term Asserter? >> Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to name it AbstractTest since most classes >> of this hierarchy are Tests? >> >> Many thanks in advance >> Abdelghani >> >> >> > Dr. Abdelghani Alidra Enseignant-chercheur Université 20 août 1955 SKIKDA-ALGÉRIE Mob:+ 213 550 453 391
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Re: [Pharo-users] Why is the root class of tests named TestAsserter?
Alidra Abdelghani via Pharo-users Thu, 11 Oct 2018 02:00:00 -0700
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