Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: testpack (first release)

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:41 PM, John Goerzen wrote:

Magnus Therning wrote:

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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:55 AM, John Goerzen wrote:

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Hi,

I've just uploaded testpack to Hackage. It's a collection of a few utilities for tests: some tools to convert QuickCheck properties into HUnit test cases, and various shortcuts and tools to increase verbosity while running tests in both QuickCheck and HUnit.

It is pulled partly from MissingH (a few modules being split off), and partly from functions I find myself writing over and over again.

API docs and downloads at:

http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/testpack

Like convertible, it should be compatible with Hugs, GHC 6.8, and GHC 6.10.

Does it complement test-framework, or is it a completely different sort of beast?

I browsed Hackage briefly before I packaged up testpack. It does look like there is some overlap (though the API docs on Haddock are weirdly messed up right now).

It looks like the focus is pretty much different though. test-framework has a lot of output options: colored output, filtering of tests to run, etc. I ought to check it out sometime.

testpack is a much smaller (simpler?) package. It simply converts QuickCheck properties into HUnit test cases, so you can run them all through HUnit. I like doing that even if I have no HUnit cases in my program, in fact. Then there are a few very simple stdout/stderr formatting functions that people can use (or not) if they like. Also a few more instances of Arbitrary for QuickCheck.

Ah, that might fit me better too then. I had to create a convenience function to get my HUnit test cases into test-framework (http://therning.org/magnus/archives/437)... it might be easier to use testpack and convert QuickTest cases to HUnit cases instead. Ah, now I have yet another thing to try out tonight :-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe