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From: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
To: phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk
Cc: "Linus Arver" <linusa@google.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Josh Steadmon" <steadmon@google.com>,
	"Calvin Wan" <calvinwan@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] Add C TAP harness
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 07:52:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZJ0cIKrSVmwMy6F4@ugly> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a6dff108-6946-71e7-99dc-ac3b70f7d7fa@gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 02:15:39PM +0100, Phillip Wood wrote:
>On 21/06/2023 16:57, Linus Arver wrote:
>> - Make the 'TEST' macro accept the test description first. Or, keep 
>> the
>>    'TEST' macro but also name a new macro 'IT' that accepts the
>>    description first, to encourage usage that reads in a
>>    behavior-driven-development (BDD) style, like 'IT("should accept foo",
>>    t_bar(...))'. I find some test descriptions easier to write this way.
>
>The test description is a printf style format string followed by 
>arguments. This allows parameterized tests to include the parameter 
>values in the description to aid debugging but it means the test 
>function must be the first parameter. We could have IT("should accept 
>%d", t(), i) but that would be a bit weird.
>
with some minor preprocessor magic [1], you could make that

   IT(("should accept %d", i), t(i))

which would be somewhat more noisy, but arguably even somewhat clearer.
notably,

   IT("should accept foo", t())

would still work with the same macro.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/62984543/3685191

somewhat on a tangent: it's also possible to overload macros on argument 
count [2], which may also come in handy.

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/24028231/3685191

regards,
ossi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-06-29  5:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-27 17:50 [RFC PATCH 0/2] add an external testing library for unit tests Calvin Wan
2023-04-27 17:50 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] Add C TAP harness Calvin Wan
2023-04-27 18:29   ` SZEDER Gábor
2023-04-27 18:38     ` Calvin Wan
2023-04-27 20:15   ` Phillip Wood
2023-04-28 16:31     ` Calvin Wan
2023-05-02 15:46       ` Felipe Contreras
2023-05-10 15:46       ` Phillip Wood
2023-05-11 23:16         ` Glen Choo
2023-05-18 10:04           ` Phillip Wood
2023-06-21 15:57         ` Linus Arver
2023-06-26 13:15           ` Phillip Wood
2023-06-28 21:17             ` Linus Arver
2023-06-29  5:52             ` Oswald Buddenhagen [this message]
2023-06-30  9:48               ` Phillip Wood
2023-05-02 15:54     ` Felipe Contreras
2023-05-02 16:39       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-05-02 18:11         ` Felipe Contreras
2023-05-02 16:34     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-05-10  8:18       ` Phillip Wood
2023-04-27 17:50 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] unit test: add basic example Calvin Wan
2023-04-27 18:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-05-02 15:58     ` Felipe Contreras
2023-04-27 18:39 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] add an external testing library for unit tests Junio C Hamano
2023-04-27 18:46   ` Calvin Wan
2023-04-27 21:35 ` brian m. carlson
2023-05-02  4:18 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-05-02 13:52 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-05-02 15:28   ` Felipe Contreras

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