[fpc-pascal] FPCUnit article/tutorial online.

[Marc Santhoff]

Am Sonntag, den 09.10.2005, 14:09 -0700 schrieb L505:
> Since I don't exactly know what test frameworks are, even after reading about them for the
> past few years, I'm going to ask some risky questions. This is not a flame thrower attempt
> at the test framework advocates, I'm just trying to understand what exactly they do, from a
> "newbie to test frameworks" perspective.
> 
> Do test frameworks
>  -cause you to spend lots of time writing test frameworks instead of program code?
>  -even apply to languages with compilers and strong typing?
>  -cause you to write your programs to conform to the test framework, instead of the program
> framework?
>  -have any actual statistics of success?
>  -have popularity statistics that prove they are popular (in the Delphi community) as stated
> in the article?
>  -have any real world examples of how they helped personX fix problemY in significantly less
> time?
> 
> Hoping the answers are no, yes, no yes, yes, yes.

Too much to explain here imo. I think this article will put some light
on what testing is good for and how it works:

http://junit.sourceforge.net/doc/testinfected/testing.htm

There is more starters documentation at the JUnit site if you like reading...

HTH,
Marc