Re: [boost] Interest in a Behavior Driven Development Framework

From: Dean Michael Berris (mikhailberis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-15 10:52:04

Hi Kevin!

On 9/15/06, Kevin Wheatley <hxpro_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Dean Michael Berris wrote:
> > I've attached the initial explorations (one header, and a test
> > implementation). Comments and insights will be most appreciated. :)
>
> My take would be that whilst the syntax for expressing the
> specifications is OK (possibly needs a little more thought) I didn't
> like the idea of exceptions being thrown if the spec is broken.
>

Yeah... Now that I'm reading it again, I'm beginning to think about
removing the exceptions part. It seemed like a good idea at first, but
apparently the client code (the one in main(...) ) doesn't look too
good with all the try {} catch (...) {} blocks.

> I'd much prefer a interface, that would better integrate with Boost
> Test for its error reporting, and it would avoid all that duplication
> in try/catch blocks and make it more readable (the whole point :-)
>

This was the original idea (integrating with Boost.Test), but I ran
into problems with Boost 1.33.1 and MSVC 8. So I tried to come up with
something that's not yet tied with anything Boost related, and the
output was what was attached to my other message. :-)

> Personally I don't mind getting lots of errors, in the non perfect
> test suites I end up writing, multiple errors can help 'factor out'
> the likely bugs I've written.
>

Indeed. I understand completely. :-)

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