[asdf-devel] ASDF test-op question

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com
Thu Oct 8 10:18:50 UTC 2009


On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Tobias C. Rittweiler <tcr at freebits.de> wrote:
> To me, the most interesting advantage that I see in ASDF providing a
> test operation, is that it should allow for automatic testing of
> arbitrary software packages.

Indeed! See http://ecls.sourceforge.net/logs_lib.html

> I do not see how providing a stream argument is relevant to that. Or do
> you propose that people should /parse/ a test framework's output?

Please, please do not force that upon us. It would be so EASY to ask
each tester to just return a sequence or number with the tests that
failed!

Juanjo

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