Re: Re: [PATCH] run-tests.php

On November 1, 2002 01:08 pm, John Coggeshall wrote:
> |What made you decide to go for the OO model of the run-tests
> |script, there
> |does not seem to be any advantage in adding this overhead (imho)?
>
> There is most definitely an advantage. Using the OO model, we
> essentially created
> A "test engine" which had some default output code (direct to stdout)
> and ran all of
> The desired tests... It basically runs just like the current
> run-tests.php script (maybe
> Not as many pretty colors, etc).
>
> The reason the OO is cool though, is when we want to port that test
> script into another
> Medium or output it in a different format such as HTML. I just created a
> new object which
> Extended the base class and overload some of the functions (such as
> showstatus() which is
> Called every time a test passes/fails) to generate HTML output instead
> of text..

In the most basic form testing process consists of 4 parts. Executing the 
script, parsing output, comparing the output to the expected output and 
comparing the results. 
Ideally (imho) the process would look something like this pseudo code:

function execute_test(test, MODE)
{
	$test_data = init_test(test);