[Sugar-devel] Unit testing an activity

[Taylor Rose (RIT Student)]

Oops, okay. That makes sense.

Thanks again for the advice everyone. I appreciate it a lot.

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Taylor Rose (RIT Student)
> <tjr1351 at rit.edu> wrote:
> > James,
> >
> > using sugar-launch, do you think I could get a hold of any output the
> > activity writes to stdout? I've been thinking that maybe I could have a
> test
> > mode where the activity would run tests internally and report the
> results to
> > stdout. The test program would just parse the output then...
>
> I think this is what Rafael was trying to suggest. Most activities
> write diagnostic info to a log file. This output can be parsed. (It is
> found in .sugar/default/logs
>
> -walter
> >
> > -Taylor
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:56 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> I have not seen any activity with unit tests.
> >>
> >> I have seen and maintained Python code with tests that are implemented
> >> as conditional blocks at the end of each source file except the main
> >> source file.  These conditional blocks are predicated on execution of
> >> the file alone, and not on import.  The main source file was in the
> >> directory above, with all the imported files in a directory below.
> >>
> >> So running the tests was:
> >>
> >>        for x in directory/*/py; do python $x; done
> >>
> >> However, since most source files in a Sugar activity tend to depend on
> >> GTK+ or Sugar, this approach is not as useful.  This approach can be
> >> used for the model third of the model view controller style.
> >>
> >> Taylor, sugar-launch can be used to launch an activity in a testing
> >> environment, but scripted control of the launched activity is your next
> >> challenge.
> >>
> >> --
> >> James Cameron
> >> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
> >
> >
> >
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>
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> Walter Bender
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