Re: How you can help

From: "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Alexander <bva@alexanderonline.org>,
	emacs-orgmode Org-Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How you can help
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:46:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874p33jovu.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7cdbe30810230750t60cd8bfbrd3c4b85f035d94da@mail.gmail.com> (Manish's message of "Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:20:32 +0530")

Hi,

I'd recommend ert.el, it is actively maintained, and I have it on good
authority that this the tool of choice for elisp unit testing.

http://github.com/ohler/ert/tree/master

,----[from ert.el]
| ;;; Commentary:
|  
| ;; ERT is a tool for automated testing in Emacs Lisp. Its main
| ;; features are facilities for defining and running test cases and
| ;; reporting the results as well as for debugging test failures
| ;; interactively.
| ;;
| ;; The main entry points are `ert-deftest', which is similar to
| ;; `defun' but defines a test, and `ert-run-tests-interactively',
| ;; which runs tests and offers an interactive interface for inspecting
| ;; results and debugging. There is also `ert-run-tests-batch' for
| ;; non-interactive use.
| ;;
| ;; The body of `ert-deftest' forms resembles a function body, but the
| ;; additional operators `should', `should-not' and `should-error' are
| ;; available. `should' is similar to cl's `assert', but signals a
| ;; different error when its condition is violated that is caught and
| ;; processed by ERT. In addition, it analyzes its argument form and
| ;; records information that helps debugging (`assert' tries to do
| ;; something similar when its second argument SHOW-ARGS is true, but
| ;; `should' is more sophisticated). For information on `should-not'
| ;; and `should-error', see their docstrings.
`----

Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com> writes:

>   On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Sebastian Rose wrote:
>   [snip]
>   >
>   > If you know of someone who knows how to do automated tests in
>   > elisp, or some technique, package, whatever, please post it to the
>   > list, so we all can take a look at it and comment->decide
>   > something. This is _highly_ _appreciated_.
>
> We could start here:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-fr/UnitTesting#toc2
>
> -- Manish
>
>
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