Consistent naming scheme for unit tests?

Milian Wolff mail at milianw.de
Wed Jul 9 14:10:56 UTC 2014


On Wednesday 09 July 2014 15:50:12 Kevin Funk wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> While working on kdevplatform/kdevelop in the past this one annoyed me quite
> a bit:
> 
> There's lots of different naming styles for file, executable and class names
> for all the unit tests. This makes it hard to identify them when searching
> for classes via Quick Open or when looking up test binaries in the build
> folder.
> 
> I'm proposing the following naming scheme (something I've already started
> doing in kdev-clang):
> - test_foo.cpp (file name)
> - test_foo (target name)
> - TestFoo (class name)
> 
> To be applied to all existing unit tests (potentially as a junior job) and
> for code written in the future.
> 
> Advantages:
> - Easy to look up via Quick Open because of the "Test" prefix
> - Easy to determine if a given class/file/target is a test, again because of
> the prefix
> - Consistent!!11

sounds good, +1

bye
-- 
Milian Wolff
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