Rename top-level functions to not shadow Octave functions

[apjanke]

We are currently providing test, runtests, and __run_test_suite__ functions that shadow Octave's own functions. Since Testify is turning into a longer-lived project, this is no longer appropriate. Rename them so they can coexist side by side with Octave's built-in test functions.

This is a high priority change, so it'll get its own minor release: 0.3.0.

[apjanke]

Done in 5defca4, but waiting to hear from collaborators about what they think of the new names.

[cbm755]

Don't care too much :)

__run_test_suite__ should go away, IMHO (or become a very thin layer around runtests2).

I think runtests2 and test2 should converge, to test2.

So how about testng for "next gen"?

[apjanke]

I'm not a big fan of "ng" or "new" for names, because they don't age well. If you later make another implementation, then the "new" one is actually an old one.

I think runtests2 and test2 should converge, to test2.

I'm not sure about this. They work at different levels: test2 runs tests in a single file, outputting detailed results for those tests. runtests2 discovers and runs tests for multiple files, with a coarser-grained aggregate results output. I'd rather deal with that using composition than a bunch of behavior switches in a single implementation.

Maybe they converge at the interface level, and just have separate implementation objects/functions for the two operational levels.

[cbm755]

Maybe they converge at the interface level, and just have separate implementation objects/functions for the two operational levels.

+1 User experience is "I want to test foo", where foo is function, dir, class, namespace, package, ...

[apjanke]

Cool.

One issue is that the existing test and runtests and their signatures are part of the public Octave API. We may have to take a breaking change on that if we want to merge them. I think if we merge them into test, the basic calling forms of test would still work; you'd just get additional calling forms. And we could leave a runtests wrapper in place for a while that just issues a deprecation warning and passes the call to test. But I'm not sure.

[apjanke]

Let's take the discussion on merging the functions over to #46. I'd like to close this issue out for Milestone 0.3.0, since this was initially just about avoiding the name collisions.

[apjanke]

Closing as fixed since the rename has landed.

[apjanke]

I pushed this out in v0.3.0, just released now. https://github.com/apjanke/octave-testify/releases/tag/v0.3.0