Re: Tests repository

From: Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:31:51 +0000
Subject: Re: Tests repository
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On 12.03.2010, at 22:20, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:

> Hi!
> 
>> Well, these tests should just be removed/rewritten.
>> Php-tests should test php, not libraries
> 
> That's easy to say - but how exactly you're going to test functionality of, say.
> ext/intl without testing the underlying ICU library?

Well, here's the way I see it:

Extensions (including ext/intl) declare their API and tests are made againt this API. No more and no
less.

If, for example, some error-text comes directly from underlying library and extension doesn't
have control over it it shouldn't be part of API.
In this case we can test that "some error-text was returned" but we shouldn't test
for exact text-match


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