RFC: blackbox tests are not integration tests

Ian Clatworthy ian.clatworthy at canonical.com
Sun Sep 20 23:44:13 BST 2009


Martin Pool wrote:
> 2009/9/17 Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net>:
>> Thus, I propose 3 new test types (and following our current conventions,
>> that means 3 new subdirs):
>> bzrlib.tests.acceptance
>> bzrlib.tests.integration
>> bzrlib.tests.cli
>>
>> The goal would be to end up with no blackbox tests, all tests being
>> tuned to be more aligned with their actual intent and placed into one of
>> those 3 containers, *or* moved to be a much more precise test.

Sounds good to me.

> After discussion (or silent acquiescence :-) you should add this to
> the developer guide.

We have a Testing Guide which is a better place for this material. It
needs a *lot* of content added IMO, building on all the great work being
done to improve our testing policies and infrastructure.

Ian C.



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