Aurélien Geron (Sep 11 2024 at 21:48): Aurélien Geron (Sep 11 2024 at 21:48):Is it possible to expect a crash?
Crashes are not really meant to ever happen, so it might be odd to expect a crash, but there are some scenarios where this is desirable: for example, I'm working on an exercise on exercism.org to teach error handling. One of the scenarios involves getting the user to write a function that crashes with a "To-Do" message. I don't know how to test that right now.
Brendan Hansknecht (Sep 12 2024 at 00:59):It is not
Brendan Hansknecht (Sep 12 2024 at 00:59):At least not without a custom test platform for exercism
Brendan Hansknecht (Sep 12 2024 at 01:29):Actually, now that I think about it, tests run on a custom platform built into the compiler, so we could technically make it support expect-crash, but it would be a special keyword and larger project
Richard Feldman (Sep 12 2024 at 02:02):personally I think I'd just explain what it is and not make a test for it
Richard Feldman (Sep 12 2024 at 02:02):people will understand :big_smile:
Brendan Hansknecht (Sep 12 2024 at 02:09):personally I think I'd just explain what it is and not make a test for it
Yeah, probably for the best.
Aurélien Geron (Sep 12 2024 at 04:23):Sounds good, thanks for your feedback
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