[MacRuby-devel] My Current UI Testing Setup

[Matt Aimonetti]

That's a really cool setup Ryan. Would you mind explaining a bit more about
what you are testing and how you ares testing?

Thanks,

- Matt

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby at zenspider.com>wrote:

> Here is my current macruby UI testing setup:
>
> Rakefile:
>
> + Has an isolate setup to pull down all my testing gems.
> + task build - runs xcodebuild to build a debug app
> + task link  - runs a build and then hard links source files to build
>               files
>
> ~/.emacs.el:
>
> + sets 'backup-by-copying-when-linked to t - allowing work on
>  hardlinked files to go unimpeded.
>
> .autotest:
>
> + Sets ENV['RUBY'] to macruby.
> + Sets ENV['MACRUBY_TESTING'] to 1.
> + Sets ENV['GEM_HOME'] and ENV['GEM_PATH'] with expanded paths to pick
>  up isolated gems during test runs.
> + initialize hook sets the test framework to minitest and runs the
>  link rake task.
> + Overrides Autotest#make_test_cmd to execute the binary directly.
>
> lib/app_controller.rb:
>
> + sets $TESTING = ENV['MACRUBY_TESTING']
> + applicationDidFinishLaunching requires minitest/macruby if $TESTING
>
> rb_main.rb:
>
> + needed to be tweaked to skip loading test files.
>
> So, when I fire up autotest it will build the application and then
> hardlink all the original source files into the build. This allows
> autotest to scan the lib and test dirs but invoking the application
> will pick up all my changes without having to rebuild. This greatly
> speeds up development.
>
> When autotest runs the application directly, it does so with
> MACRUBY_TESTING set in the environment. The application sees this and
> sets $TESTING to true and once the app is done launching, it loads
> minitest/macruby. That in turn loads up all the test files in the
> build dir and then runs the tests. Once the tests are run, it exits
> with the appropriate exit code depending on test results.
>
>
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