New convention for unit tests
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Until now, unit test files would define words in the temporary
vocabulary. This made it problematic to run these words after the unit
tests were done – sometimes your tests failed, and to debug the problem
you want to run some of these words, however the unit test code would
forget everything in the temporary
vocabulary, necessitating an
annoying workflow where to access these words the test file had to be
loaded with run-file
first. I finally got fed up with this so I
changed the convention: test files now define words in
vocab
.tests
, not temporary
, and these vocabularies are not
forgotten after tests run. I’ve updated all tests in the repository; new
code by contributors should no longer use the temporary
vocab.