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<div>On a quick skim, looks like nice work. If you want to see if it handles a lot of the cases (better or as well) that lisp-unit was designed for, see</div>
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<div> <a href="http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/academics/courses/325/programs/exercise-tests.lisp">http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/academics/courses/325/programs/exercise-tests.lisp</a></div>
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<div>This is what tests my students' solutions to exercises from Graham and elsewhere. I'd prefer to use a standard test framework in my class, but I would want that particular file to continue to be simple for novices to read and understand, since they're
the target audience.</div>
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<div> I'll try making the translation myself sometime but it won't be for the next few months at least, due to time constraints.</div>
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<div>I notice that you didn't include an "assert-prints" though obviously it's not hard to use some wrapper macro like</div>
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<div> (assert-equal "...." (collect-output (print-dots 4)))</div>
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<div>I would recommend adding something comparable to lisp-unit's assert-equality that lets you handle special equality testers, like set-equal, epsilon-equal, etc. (I used to call it assert-predicate but that implied a unary rather than binary predicate.)</div>
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<div>Nice job.</div>
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<div>On Nov 10, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Tapiwa Gutu wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Faithful hackers,<br>
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</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I decided to take up the challenge laid down
</span></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">here <a href="http://fare.livejournal.com/169346.html" target="_blank">
http://fare.livejournal.com/169346.html</a> </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">and try to consolidate the Common Lisp unit testing frameworks.</span></font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
I have written a framework that aims to consolidate all the major features of all your frameworks mentioned in this blog
<a href="http://aperiodic.net/phil/archives/Geekery/notes-on-lisp-testing-frameworks.html" target="_blank">
http://aperiodic.net/phil/archives/Geekery/notes-on-lisp-testing-frameworks.html</a>.<br>
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You can find it on Github <a href="https://github.com/tgutu/clunit" target="_blank">
https://github.com/tgutu/clunit</a>. I also wrote a blog on the development of the framework and reasons for it here
<a href="http://ml.sun.ac.za/2012/11/09/developing-a-unit-test-framework-part-1/" target="_blank">
http://ml.sun.ac.za/2012/11/09/developing-a-unit-test-framework-part-1/</a> if you are interested.<br>
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I would very much appreciate it, if you could join me in this effort and we all work together torwards making this project a success.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Tapiwa</span> </blockquote>
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