- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 15:08:48 +0200
- To: public-html-testsuite@w3.org
On Nov 30, 2010, at 20:57, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> I wrote a script test and found myself stymied by this design choice.
Me, too.
> I wanted my test output to report each assertion that passed or failed individually. It seems like the only way to do this is to use a separate test() and assert_equals() for each assertion, for example:
>
> test(function() {
> assert_equals(document.getElementById("abcd"), document.getElementsByTagName("i")[0]);
> }, "User agents must associate the element with an id value for purposes of getElementById.");
I had exactly the same experience.
> A) Add a test_assert_equals() combo call (perhaps the shorthand should even take an expression to eval rather than a function, but it doesn't really matter). That way, you can easily have a list of assertions each of which is reported independently, with a useful error message that reports the bad value.
I was tempted to write one and call it ok(). :-/
However, if people start writing their non-assertion code outside a test() wrapper, isn't the whole point of the test() wrapper defeated and onerror becomes necessary anyway?
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Henri Sivonen
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Received on Wednesday, 1 December 2010 13:09:22 UTC