Thread status tests

Ruby IronRuby
1

There are four ways to check the status of threads, Thread#status,
Thread#inspect, Thread#alive?, and Thread#stop?. Any objection to adding
a single shared file which checks the result of all the four APIs? It
won’t follow the standard pattern of it_behaves_like for aliases since
these are all different APIs and not aliases. However, it will help
check all of them consistently. I wanted to check if this idea made
sense before pushing in that direction.

Thanks,
Shri

2

I would rather implement them all separately. They all act differently.
Status returns a simple string, inspect returns an inspection string,
and alive and stop are Boolean. I would leave the shared pattern for the
way it is now. You can probably take advantage of sharing methods in the
fixtures.

JD

From: Shri B.
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:43 AM
To: Jim D.
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Thread status tests

There are four ways to check the status of threads, Thread#status,
Thread#inspect, Thread#alive?, and Thread#stop?. Any objection to adding
a single shared file which checks the result of all the four APIs? It
won’t follow the standard pattern of it_behaves_like for aliases since
these are all different APIs and not aliases. However, it will help
check all of them consistently. I wanted to check if this idea made
sense before pushing in that direction.

Thanks,
Shri

3

Yeah, I can probably unify the fixtures but leave the expectations in
the individual spec files.

From: Jim D.
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:25 AM
To: Shri B.
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Thread status tests

I would rather implement them all separately. They all act differently.
Status returns a simple string, inspect returns an inspection string,
and alive and stop are Boolean. I would leave the shared pattern for the
way it is now. You can probably take advantage of sharing methods in the
fixtures.

JD

From: Shri B.
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:43 AM
To: Jim D.
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Thread status tests

There are four ways to check the status of threads, Thread#status,
Thread#inspect, Thread#alive?, and Thread#stop?. Any objection to adding
a single shared file which checks the result of all the four APIs? It
won’t follow the standard pattern of it_behaves_like for aliases since
these are all different APIs and not aliases. However, it will help
check all of them consistently. I wanted to check if this idea made
sense before pushing in that direction.

Thanks,
Shri