Puritan: unit testing for Pure

[Alastair Pharo]

Hi all,

I've written a little library for unit testing in Pure, which I am calling Puritan.  I have aimed to make the syntax comparable to Ruby's RSpec, the idea being that you can write tests in a DSL that looks something like english.   It's still very young, but it works (I am using it at least).  For anyone who is interested, it has a bitbucket page with some documentation here:

https://bitbucket.org/asppsa/pure-puritan/overview

As I mention there, it needs some more functionality before it can properly be considered user-friendly.  However, if anyone does decide to pick it up at this early stage I'd be keen to know your thoughts.

Cheers,

Alastair

[Albert Graef]

Very nice! Thanks for sharing this. Would you mind if I post a news
item about this?

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[Albert Graef]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Alastair Pharo <asp...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've written a little library for unit testing in Pure, which I am calling
> Puritan.

BTW, I like the name. :) Is that a reference to John Brunner's "The
Sheep Look Up"? Or the religious movement?

Albert

[Alastair Pharo]

Hi there,

Yes great, I am more than happy for there to be a news item.

As for the name, I was thinking more along the lines of the modern colloquial use of the word to mean "prude", "killjoy" etc.  I suppose I think writing tests is a bit of a drag, so somehow that seemed appropriate.

I haven't heard of John Brunner before.  I shall have to look that up.

2013/7/30 Albert Graef <agg...@gmail.com>

[Albert Graef]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Alastair Pharo <asp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes great, I am more than happy for there to be a news item.

Ok, there you go, you should be able to see it in your G+ feed now,
and it's also in the blog/news list. Sorry for the badly formatted
tweet and the missing hash tags, though, will do better next time. I'm
still learning this new-fangled social network stuff, guess the kids
are laughing now. ;-)

> As for the name, I was thinking more along the lines of the modern
> colloquial use of the word to mean "prude", "killjoy" etc. I suppose I
> think writing tests is a bit of a drag, so somehow that seemed appropriate.

Seems fair. :) Anyway, nice piece of work, thanks a lot! So far I've
only played with it, but there's no doubt that this will come in handy
when I'm writing my next Pure script. I think that once you feel that
it has matured enough, we should add a section about unit testing in
general and Puritan in particular to the manual.

> I haven't heard of John Brunner before. I shall have to look that up.

If you like dystopian science fiction, you will love his stuff. Still
a good read, even though it was written in the 1970s. :)

[kp]

That's great, just what I missed so far ...
Thank you
Kurt