How to test?
Cholo Lennon
chololennon at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 24 18:12:39 EDT 2020
On 24/4/20 15:40, Manfred Lotz wrote:
> I have a command like application which checks a directory tree for
> certain things. If there are errors then messages will be written to
> stdout.
>
> How to test this in the best way?
>
> One idea was for the error situations to write messages to files and
> then later when running the tests to compare the error messages output
> to the previously saved output.
>
> Is there anything better?
>
>
Maybe I am wrong because I don't understand your scenario: If your
application is like a command, it has to return an error code to the
system, a distinct number for each error condition. The error code is
easier to test than the stdout/stderr.
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Cholo Lennon
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