[swift-dev] [SR-710][RFC] Automatically detecting XCTest test methods on Linux: Reflection? SourceKit?

[Brian Gesiak]

I made an attempt at adding `swiftc -frontend -dump-xctest-methods`:
https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/2364

Feedback appreciated!!

- Brian Gesiak


On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Brian Gesiak <modocache at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to this commit
> <https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/ad269b0e1fbc12037ae2c16634b5b451061657c6>
> it looks as if IsTestCandidate has been moved out of SourceKit and into
> libIndex:
>
>    - isTestCandidate(swift::ValueDecl)
>    <https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/8dad7f780347788f6032ad9e25ce5340aecf4073/lib/Index/Index.cpp#L754>
>    - swift::index::FuncDeclIndexSymbol.IsTestCandidate
>    <https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/41e4e9b6efc745f04df23bd6a803a467c57a66b8/include/swift/Index/IndexSymbol.h#L102>
>    and where it’s set
>    <https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/8dad7f780347788f6032ad9e25ce5340aecf4073/lib/Index/Index.cpp#L786>
>    .
>
> I’m looking into adding an option to swiftc to emit XCTest candidate
> methods. How does swiftc -frontend -dump-xctest-methods sound?
>
> - Brian Gesiak
> ​
>
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Drew Crawford <drew at sealedabstract.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 3, 2016, at 10:05 PM, Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hmm... but then wouldn't that more tightly couple the test discovery tool
>> and the Swift compiler? In an earlier email you said you "like #3 better
>> [...] because that would decouple the test discovery tool from the Swift
>> compiler." I think that part is confusing me.
>>
>>
>> Sorry -- what I meant is that the compiler remains the point of truth
>> about the language and can find the tests.  The tools that actually
>> generate glue code won't need to parse code, and would be decoupled
>> from the compiler.
>>
>>
>> I am internally shipping a test framework that discovers tests via an
>> out-of-tree parser.  Teaching swiftc about XCTest syntax is not sufficient
>> to deprecate my parser, and therefore is not sufficient for the compiler to
>> be the source of truth for my tests.
>>
>
>
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