Unit Tests

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Hi,
If you have (say) 50 unit tests how do you run them all and check that
there are no failures.
I have a script that runs all the tests but it is difficult to spot
failures in the mass of output…

Giorgio

2

Just plain ‘rake’ should run all your tests and count up the
successes/failures

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For running all test files, run ‘rake’ command. For more specific tests:

rake test # Test all units and functionals
rake test:functionals # Run the functional tests in
test/functional
rake test:integration # Run the integration tests in
test/integration
rake test:plugins # Run the plugin tests in
vendor/plugins/**/test (or specify with PLUGIN=name)
rake test:recent # Test recent changes
rake test:uncommitted # Test changes since last checkin (only
Subversion)
rake test:units # Run the unit tests in test/unit

You can see available rake test tasks, by running ‘rake -T test’ from
your project directory.

You can also run a test file with ruby:

ruby test/unit/model_test.rb

Or even just a test method by passing it’s name to -n switch:

ruby test/unit/model_test.rb -n test_method

HTH

  • H

On 5/24/07, giorgio [email protected] wrote:

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Husein C.
Yucca Intelligence Development

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Thanks that is exactly what I needed.
I was sure there must be a better way than a script!
G

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On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 07:59:57AM -0000, giorgio wrote:

If you have (say) 50 unit tests how do you run them all and check that
there are no failures.
I have a script that runs all the tests but it is difficult to spot
failures in the mass of output…

A tip if you want nicely colored and formatted output:

    gem install turn
    gem install facets

And then in test_helper.rb:

    require 'turn'

It is somewhat more verbose than the default test/unit output, so it’s a
matter of taste. I’m not sure the coloring works on windows though, the
formatting is still good.

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Cheers,

  • Jacob A.