SUnit error handling discrepancy

In sunit, running a test as normal collects the errors via an explicit
exception handler
Running a test with #debug doesn't, it leaves it to the system exception
handler to do do its normal thing with a debugger. However if the
#defaultAction for that signal does not raise UnhandledError then the
debugger does not appear.

The result being that clicking on a test case in the errors list, does
not do anything.

So the question is.

1) should SUnit only trap Unhandled errors, in its error count?
2) Or should #debug trap errors like #run does ?

Keith

               
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2007/3/13, Keith Hodges <[hidden email]>:
> 1) should SUnit only trap Unhandled errors, in its error count?
> 2) Or should #debug trap errors like #run does ?

What is the meaning of #debug: ? Currently I use it in my test
comments to rapidly execute a test. It's better than #run: because it
raises a debugger on which I can see what was wrong.

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Damien Cassou

Damien Cassou wrote:
> 2007/3/13, Keith Hodges <[hidden email]>:
>> 1) should SUnit only trap Unhandled errors, in its error count?
>> 2) Or should #debug trap errors like #run does ?
>
> What is the meaning of #debug: ? Currently I use it in my test
> comments to rapidly execute a test. It's better than #run: because it
> raises a debugger on which I can see what was wrong.
I am sorry I was not clear enough, option 2 should read

2) Or should #debug trap errors like #run does, and open a debugger on
the caught errors, rather than leaving it to the default handler to open
the debugger which doesnt always happen.

So if you write a test

testThis
    "self debug:#testThis"
    InvalidDirectoryError pathName: '/example') signal

The test above will raise an error in the TestRunner, however it will
not open a debugger when you execute the test via #debug:. This is
because InvalidDirectoryError has a #defaultAction defined which returns
#{} rather than raising a UnhandledError exception.

So the question is, should TestRunner be changed to only catch
UnhandleErrors, or should #debug be changed to catch all errors.

I have gone for the latter, and uploaded the fix to
http://www.squeaksource.com/Testing in order to try it out.

Keith





               
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