[Scons-users] 2615 Issue

Dirk Bächle tshortik at gmx.de
Mon Feb 29 16:22:46 EST 2016


Hi Adarsh,

On 29.02.2016 17:41, Adarsh Sanjeev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm still working on this issue, and I have gone through the source code for CacheDirTests.py. I do not understand why
> test_CachePush replaces the function with its own self.push for the test, if it is testing it.
>
> As per what you said, I do not understand why two cacheDirs have to be made to test for read only. Isn't it enough to push a file to
> a read only cache? Furthermore, is a read only cache the only case that I should handle? What about if os.makedir fails for the cache?
>
> Also, is there any documentation specifically on writing tests for scons, other that the unittest documentation?
>

the DeveloperGuide at https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/wiki/DeveloperGuide/Introduction points directly to our "Testing Howto" at

   https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/wiki/DeveloperGuide/TestingMethodology

Does that help?

Best regards,

Dirk




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