Re: What is the largest number of tests you have created for a single project you have worked on?

very interesting!! I' have not grown rationally in coding and I fail in tests writing.. more .. normally I code by my own at work like at home and seven on ten it ends with a quick and lazy hack; -w use strict; use this; use that; abracadabra! The others three times my lack in test writing skill make the difference between me an a serious prof coder.

It remeber me the time when I was stucked wrinting a recursive dir walker .. atcroft it need an option more:


     tests? like uncommenting my print statements?!
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Re^2: What is the largest number of tests you have created for a single project you have worked on? by atcroft (Abbot) on Jun 17, 2010 at 20:14 UTC
Wow! I was surprised when I looked at the current poll and found it to be my earlier suggestion. Just-wow. My original reason for the idea was that I had started myself a small project in late January: I wanted to write something to standardize the abbreviations used in a lengthy list of customer addresses where I work. I started with a listing of US Postal Service abbreviations, and began writing expressions to check for common variations and replace them. In doing so, I realized I could use the Test::* framework to generate tests to make sure none of the patterns I had created were too lax or too aggressive, plus it would give me a reason to play with testing, something that I too have not done as much of as I should. When my generated count of tests exceeded 1.0e4, I began to wonder how many tests others had created/generated/written, and thus the question I posted. (As for the project, I ran out of to-its with a full 10+ minute run of the tests (exceeding 5.8e5, including, at that point, 9 failures), probably several dozen expressions left to write, and the eventual intent to try my hand at morphing it into some kind of usable module.)	[reply]
Re^3: What is the largest number of tests you have created for a single project you have worked on? by atcroft (Abbot) on Jun 29, 2010 at 05:34 UTC
613,026 tests (generated by the script), taking 11m:50s to run, and all passed. I'm surprised (on all counts)! By the way, are there any modules anyone could recommend that actually do what I seem to have originally intended when I started this, to be able to give it an address part (such as an address line, or a US state) using a possibly common abbreviation and return one in which the common but not standard abbreviations are replaced? Just curious.	[reply]