simpletest v1.0
The Simple Development Library regression testing tool
Project: the Simple Development Library.
simpletest checks whether a test package exist for each of the packages to be tested. For each of those, the package is tested and its test results are displayed together with per-test case information as directed by the -v flag. Finally, the statistics of all tested packages and test case results are displayed.
There are three ways to specify which packages to test:
The -d flag specifies to test a package plus those which depend on it.
Supply a list of packages (patterns are honored).
Otherwise, all available packages will be tested.
For all three ways, the -r flag controls which versions of the packages to test.
simpletest is based on the testing framework provided by the SimpleTest package, and does not use the full framework provided by the Simple Development Library so as to keep the number of dependences to a minimum in order to use it for testing the Simple Development Library itself during its development.
But simpletest can be used for testing packages other than those of The Simple Development Library. For this, the package test cases must be exposed when requiring the package named <package>-test where
Keywords: regression, test and package.
simpletest [-v verbosity] [-w width] [-C] [-c criteria] [-p path] [-r requisite] [-A] [-V] (-d package | packages(1:))
simpletest --help
simpletest --version
simpletest --examples
| Option | Effect |
| -v, --verbosity VERBOSITY | set the verbosity level |
| -2: no individual tests are displayed | |
| -1: only failed tests are displayed | |
| 0: only failed tests are displayed, detailing why (default) | |
| 1: only test with distinct major titles are displayed | |
| 2: all tests are displayed | |
| 3: all tests are displayed, including their expected output, error and return values | |
| 4: all tests are displayed, detailing all the flags given to the corresponding test case | |
| -w, --width WIDTH | set the width of the output (default 80) |
| -C, --colorize | turns on output colorization (UNIX only) |
| -c, --criteria CRITERIA | set the criteria for which test cases to run |
| -p, --path PATH | adds the given PATH to the list of directories to search for packages |
| -r, --requisite REQUISITE | package version requisite |
| -A, --argument | set run-time argument type checking |
| -V, --variable | set run-time variable type checking |
| -d, --dependon PACKAGE | test that package plus those which depend on it |
| packages | packages to test (patterns are honored) |
| --help | display this help and exit |
| --version | output version information and exit |
| --examples | display some usage examples and exit |
To test all versions of all packages:
simpletest
To test all versions of the "foo" package searching the current directory for packages:
simpletest -p . foo
To test all versions of the "foo" package plus those packages which depend on it:
simpletest -d foo
To test all versions of the "foo" package plus those which begin by "bar" displaying the result of all test cases:
simpletest -v 2 foo bar*
To test all versions of the "foo" package test cases numbers 1 to 20 and 22 in a 132 columns display:
simpletest -w 132 -c 1-20,22 foo
To test the "foo" package version 1.* with both run-time argument and argument and variable type checking set:
simpletest -A -V -r 1 foo
| Date | Reason |
| 19-feb-1999 | Unreleased first version 0.1 |
| 23-apr-2000 | First public release, version 0.2 |
| 10-sep-2001 | Second public release, version 0.4 |
| 25-sep-2001 | Added --path option, version 0.4.1 (oakley@bardo.clearlight.com) |
| 13-feb-2002 | The test and package modules versions must match, version 0.4.2 |
| 21-apr-2002 | Added exit at end to allow running via wish, version 0.4.4 |
| 23-apr-2002 | Ignore extra packages, version 0.4.5 |
| 03-may-2002 | Do not stop on package failing to load, version 0.4.6 |
| 15-dec-2002 | Added verbosity -1, version 0.4.7 |
| 17-feb-2003 | Third public release, version 0.5 |
| 10-feb-2005 | Added --requisite option, version 0.5.1 |
| 04-apr-2005 | Enable SimpleClass -debug option for object packages, version 0.5.2 |
| 22-jun-2005 | The Simple Development Library version 1.0 |
Copyright (C) 1999-2005, Juan C. Gil (jgil@gmv.es).