0007111: [RFE] SUnit support for testing infinite recursion loop

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0007111

[Squeak] SUnit

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07-06-08 00:31

07-10-08 10:07

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nicolas cellier

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open

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new

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3.10

Summary

0007111: [RFE] SUnit support for testing infinite recursion loop

Description

I propose to add following extension:

self should: [myObject doSomething] notSendDeeperThan: 10000.

Additional Information

I propose a MessageTally-spy-like solution to this.

I'm still interested if anyone finds a way to assert infinite ITERATIVE loops (whileTrue and whileFalse...)

Note that this solution does not handle correctly an Error...
An Error would pass...
Up to Block/Exception gurus to give their advice.

Attached Files

SUnit-infiniteRecursionSupport-M7111-nice.1.cs [^] (2,191 bytes) 07-06-08 00:38

SUnit-infiniteRecursionSupport-Test-M7111-nice.1.cs [^] (2,092 bytes) 07-06-08 00:39

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(0012352 - 516 - 564 - 766 - 766 - 766 - 766) nicolas cellier 07-10-08 10:07	Since squeak-dev thread tend to show i was misunderstood, I add a few complements: My aim is not to solve the halting problem! This is not possible. I don't want to fight against maths, logic nor Godel. I just want to be able to count loops so that I can provide a hint and decide to stop the test. Monitoring resources consumption (CPU and memory) at an upper level would be of greater interest than this partial support... See http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-July/130058.html [^]

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
07-06-08 00:31	nicolas cellier	New Issue
07-06-08 00:38	nicolas cellier	File Added: SUnit-infiniteRecursionSupport-M7111-nice.1.cs
07-06-08 00:39	nicolas cellier	File Added: SUnit-infiniteRecursionSupport-Test-M7111-nice.1.cs
07-10-08 10:07	nicolas cellier	Note Added: 0012352

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