From: Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] testing private functions with oUnit
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:23:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140929132331.GC7490@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zjdioqe2.fsf@gmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 07:08:21AM +0000, Malcolm Matalka wrote:
> Out of curiosity: why? Any private function should be exercised through
> an API function somehow.
In this particular case, the private function produces a pair of
values. The API provides a function to get the first element, but the
second is used only internally to the module, in a code path that
is quite complex to exercise.
> If your API is pure, btw, you should checkout QCheck for testing it
> instead of unit tests.
Thanks, but it's extremely impure :-) Lots of manipulations of the
file system, etc.
--
Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-29 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-28 23:06 Eric Cooper
2014-09-28 23:12 ` Eric Cooper
2014-09-28 23:19 ` Ivan Gotovchits
2014-09-29 7:08 ` Malcolm Matalka
2014-09-29 8:03 ` Francois Berenger
2014-09-29 13:23 ` Eric Cooper [this message]
2014-09-29 8:28 ` ygrek
2014-09-29 8:50 ` Jeremie Dimino
2014-09-29 10:48 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2014-09-29 10:57 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2014-09-29 10:58 ` Maxence Guesdon
2014-09-29 12:00 ` Malcolm Matalka
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