[erlang-questions] Unit testing

Steve Davis steven.charles.davis@REDACTED
Wed Dec 21 01:43:39 CET 2011


wow did i really say test() "method" -- i have spent far too much of
my day in java today.

On Dec 20, 6:41 pm, Steve Davis <steven.charles.da...@REDACTED>
wrote:
> I suspect that the reason testing is less extensively covered in
> erlang is that it's generally easier (less involved) to accomplish.
>
> For apps with little internal state, a simple test() method is usually
> considered enough (if you look at what people actually do).
>
> As the system gains more internal state, people move to eunit,
> quicktest, test_server etc.
>
> It all depends on what's really necessary in practice (rather than
> observing some notional consideration of required ceremony which, in
> many circumstances, may be a total waste of everyone's time).
>
> /s
>
> On Dec 20, 10:38 am, "Yves S. Garret" <yoursurrogate...@REDACTED>
> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> >    Recently I started working on unit testing for CakePHP and this got met
> > wondering, what unit testing apps are there for Erlang?
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> >    I've found these sources:
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> >    1.http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/eunit/chapter.html
> >    2.
> >    http://armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com/2009/01/micro-lightweight-uni...
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> >    Anything else?  Does anyone know if any Erlang programming books out
> > there cover this topic in some detail?
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