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Naming convention for test cases

Added by Alex Afanasyev about 9 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

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I would like to propose a change in the naming convention for test cases. I really don't like that in NFD test cases called exactly like tested module. Alternative way was used in ndn-cxx (prepending test- prefix), but I don't like that either and it has not been consistently used. The main reason I don't like it because given the filename it is unclear that it is a test case, not implementation.

Recently I saw that in some projects the following naming convention is used: <tested-module>.t.cpp. That is, we still use name of what we testing, just appending .t suffix.

UnitTesting wiki page should be updated after a decision is made.

Actions #1

Updated by Davide Pesavento about 9 years ago

It seems you're talking about the file name here. What about the actual test suite name as passed to boost macros?

Actions #2

Updated by Davide Pesavento about 9 years ago

  • Category changed from Docs to Integration Tests
Actions #3

Updated by Alex Afanasyev about 9 years ago

For the test suite name, we have been consistently using <Folder><Module>. I would like to keep this part as is (.t suffix should not be part of the name). For example, for src/encoding/encoder.hpp|cpp module, there should be tests/.../encoding/encoder.t.cpp and suite name EncodingEncoder.

Alternatively, we could do some nesting with suite names. In other words, for every folder, we create a separate test suite. For the same example, there will be suite name Encoding with sub-suite Encoder. Boost is very happy with suites spreaded across multiple files (they are namespaces).


One more thing that I started to add in test cases is enclosing test suites into additional "tests" namespace. Though this doesn't relate to naming conventions.

Actions #4

Updated by Junxiao Shi about 9 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
  • Category changed from Integration Tests to Docs

Category "Tests" refers to "Integration Tests". This issue is unrelated to integ.

For the test suite name, we have been consistently using <Folder><Module>. I would like to keep this part as is (.t suffix should not be part of the name). For example, for src/encoding/encoder.hpp|cpp module, there should be tests/.../encoding/encoder.t.cpp and suite name EncodingEncoder.

One problem with <Folder><Module> appears in ndn-cxx test suites for types directly under src/.

This convention requires test suite for ndn::Interest to be named Interest, which would generate ndn::tests::Interest type.
Testing code under this test suite cannot use Interest to refer to ndn::Interest type because it refers to ndn::tests::Interest type.

I suggest using 'Test'<Module> such as TestInterest for this special case.

Another problem is with the namespace.
Current guidelines require all testing code to be under nfd::tests namespace.

This convention requires test suite for nfd::fw::RetxSuppressionFixed to appear in nfd::tests namespace or its sub-namespace nfd::tests::fw, which means testing code must write fw::RetxSuppressionFixed to refer to the tested type.
Placing into nfd::fw::tests is also bad because testing helpers such as nfd::tests::makeInterest would need a full name.

I suggest placing testing code into nfd::fw::tests namespace to make tested code available, and put using namespace nfd::tests on the top (as a exception to the general guideline of forbidding using namespace) to make testing helpers available.

Actions #5

Updated by Alex Afanasyev about 9 years ago

I have no objections. Just to summarize:

  • for src/module-name.hpp

    • Filename for tests: tests/.../module-name.t.cpp (... is unit-tests, integration-tests, or something else project-specific)
    • Name of the suite TestModuleName
    • Inside the same namespace as src/module-name.hpp plus inside additional tests namespace. If needed, parent tests namespaces can be imported using using namespace xxx::tests directive
  • for src/folder/module-name.hpp

    • Filename for tests: tests/.../folder/module-name.t.cpp
    • Name of the suite FolderModuleName
    • Inside the same namespace as src/folder/module-name.hpp plus inside additional tests namespace. If needed, parent tests namespaces can be imported using using namespace xxx::tests directive
Actions #6

Updated by Junxiao Shi about 9 years ago

I agree with note-5. This Task, once assigned, should update UnitTesting wiki page.

Actions #7

Updated by Davide Pesavento about 9 years ago

Are we going to mass rename the test files in one go or do it incrementally?

Actions #8

Updated by Alex Afanasyev about 9 years ago

Which way you prefer?

I would do mass update in ndn-cxx, as naming there is a little messy now. For nfd we could do incremental or mass update, I have no strong opinion on that.

Actions #9

Updated by Davide Pesavento about 9 years ago

I don't mind either way. If you just do a mechanical mass rename with git (git mv), it should be straightforward to rebase existing commits as git should be able to resolve the conflicts automatically.

Actions #10

Updated by Junxiao Shi about 9 years ago

  • Assignee set to Junxiao Shi
  • Target version set to v0.4

I'll update UnitTesting wiki page with decision in note-5.

I won't do code updates.

Actions #11

Updated by Alex Afanasyev about 9 years ago

I can take over code updates

Actions #12

Updated by Junxiao Shi about 9 years ago

  • Assignee deleted (Junxiao Shi)

UnitTesting page is updated to rev5.

Actions #13

Updated by Spyros Mastorakis about 9 years ago

  • Status changed from New to In Progress
  • Assignee set to Spyros Mastorakis
Actions #14

Updated by Spyros Mastorakis about 9 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Code review
  • % Done changed from 0 to 90
Actions #15

Updated by Spyros Mastorakis about 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Code review to Closed
  • % Done changed from 90 to 100
Actions #16

Updated by Alex Afanasyev about 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Closed to Code review

Not all code is merged yet :)

Actions #17

Updated by Spyros Mastorakis about 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Code review to Closed
Actions #18

Updated by Junxiao Shi over 8 years ago

In ndn-cxx:commit:bae21d51840dbcee046ed67a7337db68d823971e, test suite for ndn::security::transform::Base64Decode is being nested like:

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE(Security)
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE(TransformBase64Decode)

The idea could be correct, but this violates the convention set here.

We need to re-discuss the convention.

Actions #19

Updated by Junxiao Shi over 8 years ago

20150901 conference call decides to change the convention to UnitTesting rev6.

Existing test suites may retain their current names, but new test suites should follow the new convention.

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