Re: Re: Heads up - go-pear refactor

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 01:33:25AM -0400, Greg Beaver wrote: > >>Then I will write unit tests for go-pear that will allow us to at least > >>verify that basic functionality is working. > > > >Wouldn't it make more sense to write some unit tests first in order to > >verify the iterative progress (and success) of the refactoring? > > Sure, if you can properly simulate: > > 1) cscript (windows) > 2) download from pear.php.net > 3) reading input from php://stdin I know how to do none of these days. I actually have no experience writing unit tests for a PHP-based environment. > then it would be possible. Even if the second two are possible, the > first can only be done with a bit more abstraction. go-pear is really > not sandboxable yet. I assumed such testing techniques had already been developed for testing the PEAR tool itself. I know understand how that was accomplished. > Unless you know something I don't - and then, I would love some > assistance on this point. I hope you didn't take my commentary as criticism. It wasn't intended as such. I think you're taking the best approach. -- Jon Parise (jon of php.net) :: The PHP Project (http://www.php.net/)