[lazarus] dunit for testing

[Curtis White]

Were do we find this dunit?

I do a lot of Java development and we use a unit testing package called
JUnit to do unit testing (part of extreme programming). It works very
well and really speeds development. Once the unit test is setup (usually
before the unit is actually coded), any changes to anything else in the
framework (LCL or Lazarus in our case) can be tested immediately to
ensure nothing was broken in that unit. This is REALLY helpful in making
sure that your changes don't break anything else.

If this dunit is similar (I assume it is the same thing except for
Delphi), then we should really start using it (or a conversion of it to
FPC). It could really help us with testing changes to ensure we don't
break something else in the LCL or Lazarus. I would be happy to look
into converting it to FPC and start setting up the unit tests for the
existing LCL units if someone can just point me to it.


Curtis


"Michael A. Hess" wrote:
> 
> Barbini Uberto wrote:
> >
> > Have you considered to use an automatic testing tool like dunit?
> 
> Interesting tool. I had not heard of it prior to your email.
> 
> However it would require that the tool be rewritten/modified so that it
> could be built with FPC and the LCL. If someone would like to take on
> that task that would be great but for now we have enough work just
> finishing the LCL and the IDE itself.   :-)
> 
> --
> ==== Programming my first best destiny! ====
> 
> Michael A. Hess      Miracle Concepts, Inc.
> mhess at miraclec.com   http://www.miraclec.com
>