The Great Testing Refactor
qpfiffer opened this issue · comments
Tests need to be split up. We need tests for the frontend. This ticket is for:
- Where do we put tests?
- The testing binary needs to have everything split up logically to test components
- Where do the frontend tests live and what do we write them in?
Related to #126
I still want duration in tests if possible, it'll make it easier to find bottlenecks without bothering the buildbot.
My proposal is to still make them a different folder, although a Golang-style "<something>_test.[c|h]" (as @kyleterry proposed on IRC) might be cool, although I fear cluttering of the source/include folder.
As currently decided with @kyleterry, Frontend tests will come in two flavors: binding tests (via go test) and api tests (via shell→curl).
We're using #127 for the details on those.
I personally would like to see tests in project root, under test/ or spec/, from there perhaps it could be test/frontend/testserver.c and/or spec/backend/findkey.c, roughly.
I am not familiar with C or Go testing, only Ruby, which would be useless to pull in for testing.
I like the test subfolder idea!
Me too!