[fiveam-devel] how do you use fiveam?

Olof-Joachim Frahm olof at macrolet.net
Tue Dec 11 09:01:20 UTC 2012


> On 10 December 2012 at 09:14 Marco Baringer <mb at bese.it> wrote:
>
>   if you have 5 minutes (or 10), i'd really appreciate it if you could
>   tell me:
>
>   1 - do you use test suites?

Yes.  One per package usually.

>   1a - if so, do you generally have one suite you're working on or do
>   you switch from suite to suite regularly?

Mostly working on one suite.

>   2 - do you run tests via asdf (or whatever) regularly?

Yes.  I try now to integrate them in at least every new system.

>   3 - do you C-cC-c single tests in a file or do you just recompile
>   entire files?

Both.  Single test for small changes, whole file regularly.

>   4 - do you use *debug-on-failure* ?

Yes, rarely though.

>   5 - do you test before the code runs or do you test to check that the
>   code does actually run?

Mostly the latter.  Edge cases and so on.

>   6 - do you cut 'n paste repl interactions to write your test from?

No.

>   7 - have you ever used the function 5am:! ?

No.  (I'm only using *-*** regularly.)





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