YASL Request

[Patrick Venture]

One can also use a fake-file-system framework to do some testing if
you need to create a bunch of local temp files.  We have this
internally, there is probably something similar on the outside.

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 9:03 AM, Patrick Venture <venture at google.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 8:21 AM, Brad Bishop
> <bradleyb at fuzziesquirrel.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Apr 12, 2018, at 11:56 PM, Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Some advantages I've found to this technique are:
>>>
>>> * There's no reduction of readability in the code
>>
>> This.
>>
>>> * You get test binaries that you can run independent of your test framework, as there isn't really a test framework, just autotools running your test binaries in parallel
>>> * By extension, if you need to debug a failing test case, you can gdb the test binary directly without needing to comprehend the side-effects of the test framework on your test binary
>>
>> And this.
>>
>> Honestly these are my _real_ objections but I brought up runtime overhead because
>> that is not subjective.  I just don’t like how the direction we are headed
>> obfuscates things for developers that have a good understanding of standard libraries,
>> tools, and language features (libc, libstd++, STL, GDB, etc...) and don’t have an
>> understanding of the internals of GMock or the “techniques" its use drives into the
>> code.  I expect there to be way more of the former (those up to speed on the standard
>> libraries, tools, language features) than the latter (those comfortable working on
>> a GMock inspired codebase).
>
> I find a flaw in this logic that, because a developer would need to
> learn something new, because as you say few people will be familiar
> with gmock.  Every developer I've met tends to learn new things all
> the time, and I specifically hadn't used c++ since 2004, and basically
> learned it to contribute to OpenBMC, and I doubt I'd be an exception
> to this.
>
>>
>> IMHO these concepts have a greater (positive) impact on the project overall than
>> super-easy-unit-test writing.  I’d guess I’m in the minority, but hey…I have to
>> speak my mind right?  I can certainly relate to the opposing viewpoint.