Re: Unit testing and roguelikes

The Sheep schrieb:
> Dnia 1 Dec 2003 19:23:55 -0800, Paul Miller napisal(a):
>
> > Has anyone here implemented unit tests for their roguelike game(s)?  A
> > quick google through this group turned up only one game (written in
> > Java), that used unit tests, although I suspect this is not something
> > that is going to be covered in a typical "announce" post.
>
> What's a unit test?

It's a program module that automatically tests another program module.

I.e. if you have a module for file IO, you can write a unit test that 
calls the file IO routines, feeds data into them and checks if i.e. the 
read data is tha same as the writen data .. or whatever can be tested there.

There are framerworks to automatize execution and evalutaion of such 
tests. I.e. for Java there is JUnit (google for it).

IME unit test work best on low level modules. I'm not quite sure how to 
apply unit tests to a RL game, except for the basic modules i.e. level 
saving or FOV code ...

c.u.
Hajo