test-op and dependencies

[Robert Goldman]

On 30 Sep 2019, at 6:26, Anton Vodonosov wrote:

> How test-op is expected to deal with tests in dependency libraries?
>
> If my application depends on several libraries, which in turn depend 
> on others,
> when a user of my application asdf system runs test-op, is it expected 
> to only run
> tests of the application itself? Of my test-op implementation should
> explicitly load and call tests of all dependencies?
>
> I think it's better to recommend test-op implementations to run only
> tests of this system itself and ASDF could provide a "recursive test 
> op",
> which runs tests on the whole dependency tree.

Yes, you are right. In general, we do not expect `TEST-OP` to propagate 
to dependencies.  But there may be systems that have sub-systems, in 
which case the programmer might want propagation.  This can be achieved 
with `in-order-to`.  Indeed, my systems, `foo` typically have a coupled 
subsystem `foo/test`, with `(in-order-to (test-op (test-op 
"foo/test")))` (that syntax is just from memory; could be wrong).

Typically, I don't build the tests into the system under test, in order 
to avoid spurious dependencies on test libraries.

Best,
R
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