[Rcpp-devel] How to manage testing code for Rcpp based project?

[Hadley Wickham]

> Thanks! I did briefly consider testthat, based on reading [1], and
> dismissed it because it seemed to be different without being better.
> (I'm not saying it was worse, just it didn't appear to have any killer
> reason to make it worth turning my back on the 10-15 years worth of
> experience the software industry has with the xUnit approach.)

I wrote testthat because I didn't think the xUnit approach was a very
good fit for R - it is very tightly tied to message passing OO
conventions, and in R, there are more idiomatic ways of solving the
same problems using lexical scoping, first class functions etc.

I was also really annoyed the RUnit lacked the one feature that I
think is absolutely crucial for unit testing: it doesn't produce
coloured dots that show the progress of the tests ;)

Hadley

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