[erlang-questions] Design strategies for a test suite

[John Haugeland]

>
> If you use eunit, you can:
>  - Write internal test functions that are automatically exported
>   (you don't have to write -export() declarations for them), but
>   which disappear when you compile with testing disabled.
>

Do you happen to know how this is implemented?  I confess this actually
sounds a whole lot like the macro compile solution suggested earlier, but
I'm curious whether someone else has found a different way.






>  - Put external test functions for x.erl in a module x_tests.erl
>   and they will be run automatically when module x is tested.
>

Yeah, I've already got that running in mine.  :)






>  - Do a lot of neat stuff rather easily.
>

I'd appreciate someone else's perspective on what exactly constitutes "neat"
from the perspective of a testing suite.  The reason I'm implementing my own
is to get some functionality that I haven't found in any other erlang test
suites (with the exception of a commercial suite, but Mine Shall Be Free
(tm)).






> If you prefer not to use eunit, you can still use similar conventions,
> and use conditional compilation to decide whether internal test
> functions should be compiled and exported or be excluded completely,
> while the tests for the external interface are kept in another module.
> I think that's the best you can hope for.
>

Maybe so.  Admittedly, I'm now getting really really into the idea of
selective export, as it provides me a much better way.
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