Re: CfC: WebApps testing process; deadline April 20

On 4/18/11, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> The superfluous, badly worded maladvice remains: "Within each test one
>> may have a number of asserts."
>>
>> Awkward wording to explicitly mention that such bad practice is allowed.
>
> I'll reiterate that I think multiple asserts per test are useful, and
> have seen no substantive arguments to the contrary.  It's true that
> the sentence would be better worded as "Each test can have a number of
> asserts."
>
Superfluous.

A test with 0 assertions could be used to test exceptions but only if
the testing framework provides for "@throws" annotation (my
TestRunner.js does).
-- 
Garrett

Received on Monday, 18 April 2011 20:52:59 UTC