[TYPO3-50-general] The Testing package

[Robert Lemke]

Hi Andreas,

Am 21.05.2007 um 17:37 schrieb Andreas Förthner:

> at the moment I'm playing a bit arround with a new testrunner
> implementation. There two basic questions appeared:
>
> 1. Where has the docu gone? I'm missing the whole part about the  
> AOP and
> the other Framework stuff. It would be really great to have it  
> available
> to see what I can use of it. Or am I just too blind to see, but the
> guide to TYPO3 seems to be a bit small at the moment? ;-)

Well, technically it's there, but structurally it's not. This is  
because I was restructuring "The Guide" today and was interrupted and  
only returned at home a minute ago. Tomorrow I'll fix it again ...

> 2. Why is there a different package for PHPUnit? Wouldn't it make  
> sense
> to add the PHPUnit classes in an resources folder in the Testing
> package? Or are there any reasons against this? If not I will change
> that in my development and add it to the Testing package.

The reason is to decouple both: the package "PHPUnit" only contains  
PHPUnit. In case any other developer would like to create his own  
test runner or needs whatever functionality from PHPUnit he can refer  
to that package but doesn't need the "TestPackage". A second reason  
is that the version number of the PHPUnit package will always be the  
same as the PHPUnit version number.

So, please keep it that way unless you have a strong reason to change  
it. Technically your test runner is only using / exending the PHPUnit  
package.

Cheers,
robert