[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0019 Swift Testing (Package Manager)

[Paul Cantrell]

A few requests for clarification from the proposal authors:

1. The proposal talks in several places about “test modules” (for example, “test-module is created per subdirectory of Tests”). How do these test modules interact with Package.swift? Does each of them have a separate target? If so, how is the test module name specified in the Target(…) entry?

2. Perhaps answered by #1, how does Package.swift specify test-only dependencies (e.g. Quick) that are necessary to build tests, but should not be exported to downstream projects?

3. You propose that “building a module also builds that module's corresponding tests.” Does this apply only to the top-level package, or to all of its dependencies? For example, if my FooApp depends on BarLib, and BarLib’s tests depend on HugeFancyTestFramework, do I have to download and compile HugeFancyTestFramework in order to build FooApp? (Hopefully not!)

I apologize if these questions are already answered in the proposal. I’m not sure I caught every subtlety of the writeup.

Cheers,

Paul


> On Jan 5, 2016, at 1:06 PM, Rick Ballard via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> Hello Swift community,
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> The review of “Swift Testing” for the Package Manager begins now and runs through Thursday, January 7th. The proposal is available here:
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> 	https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0019-package-manager-testing.md
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