PackageDescription: Assessments(Bundle)


Assessments

Last published: February 17, 2014 by 'valloud'

Assessments is a replacement / reimplementation of the SUnit evaluation machinery, published under the MIT license (see below), with the following characteristics.

* It provides all the functionality and features of SUnit and SUnit VM (including SUnit Based Validation and SUnit Benchmarks) natively.

* For those who have made a significant investment in SUnit or SUnit VM based tests, Assessments will run them faithfully using its own evaluation framework, and without requiring any code changes whatsoever.

* A great deal of flexibility is made possible by Assessments' design, far more than what is available with SUnit. For example, it is possible to teach Assessments how to run tests in different testing frameworks (as exemplified by its ability to run Assessments native tests, SUnit tests, and SUnit VM tests). The exception handling mechanism in particular is extremely flexible and robust, allowing Assessments to be easily extended without the requirement to nest exception handlers or modify Assessments code. The evaluation and execution policies, together with the evaluation context, provide the ability to do pretty much as one pleases requiring only subclassing and composition. As an illustration, it is straightforward to process results in any arbitrary manner as they arrive, and in fact three different ways to handle file report generation are provided by default.

This bundle is partitioned in three bundles. Assessments Framework contains all the code needed to run Assessments in a headless manner. Assessments Tools has the checklist evaluators added to the Launcher under the Tools menu. Assessments Self Checks includes the code that verifies that Assessments is working properly.

You will find more information in the comments for these bundles and packages. The design principles behind Assessments are described in the book

Fundamentals of Smalltalk Programming Technique, volume 1

available at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/avsmalltalkbooks.

Copyright (c) 2008 by Andres Valloud

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