[Xapian-discuss] Fwd: Clearing Database For Tests

[Ryan Bates]

Hi David,

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately mocking isn't a solution here.
I'm actually building a high-level wrapper around the Xapian bindings
so nearly every test interacts heavily with the Xapian database:
http://github.com/ryanb/xapit

Would love to hear more ideas though.

Regards,

Ryan


On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, David P. Novakovic
<davidnovakovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> I forgot to cc the mailing list...
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David P. Novakovic <davidnovakovic at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [Xapian-discuss] Clearing Database For Tests
> To: Ryan Bates <ryan at railscasts.com>
>
>
> i know this doesn't answer your question, but it is definitely worth
> mentioning:
>
> I've found that I actually don't need that many tests for interface code to
> xapian.  Once you have tests that prove your base wrapper functions work as
> expected wouldn't you just want to test your code not xapian?
>
> Use mocks and dep injection to avoid actually touching the xapian code...
> I've forgotten the technical term for it, but you want to avoid testing code
> that is outside of the scope of what you are trying to test.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Ryan Bates <ryan at railscasts.com> wrote:
>
>> I am using Xapian through the Ruby bindings and am wondering the best
>> way to use it in a unit test suite where we must start with an empty
>> database every time (so records generated in one test don't interfere
>> with another). I am currently deleting the database directory and
>> regenerating it every time, but I find this to be very slow (nearly
>> half a second). This results in even a small number of tests taking a
>> long time to run.
>>
>> Is there some fast way to clear an existing database of all content
>> (terms, values, spellings, etc.)? If not, what is the best practice
>> for resetting a database for each test?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ryan
>>
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