Package:	assertionTest
Version:	0.0-3
Date:	2009-05-14
License:	Spotfire Internal Use Only
Packaged:	2009-05-19 18:36:12 UTC; wdunlap
Built:	R 2.10.0; ; 2009-05-22 00:50:45 UTC; windows

Index: assertionTest Test expressions atExpectStop Verify that an expression causes an error. atExpectWarnings Check that expression causes expected warnings atOnExit Register an expression to be run at the end of a call to assertionTest. atOnlyIf Evaluate an expression only if condition is TRUE. atSource Allow a test file to run commands in another file using relative file paths atAbort Stop a assertionTest() run. atUsesRandom Encapsulate use of random numbers in tests run by assertionTest. assertionTest("file.t") will parse the text in file.t and evaluate the R expressions found in it. Each expression should evaluate to TRUE if things are running as expected. The expressions should not cause warnings, call stop(), nor change the random number generator seed; if assertionTest detects any discrepency it will print the offending expression and the problem.

A typical expression uses all.equal(), or sometimes identical(), to compare actual outputs with expected ones. all.equal(x,y) returns TRUE if x and y are the same "for practical purposes" but returns something else, typically a character vector describing the discrapencies, otherwise. identical(x,y) returns TRUE if x and y are exactly the same and FALSE otherwise.

There are some helper functions, atExpectWarnings and atExpectStop, that allow you to test that the functions being tested produce expected warning or error messages. atUsesRandom is a helper function that hides from assertionTest the fact that the expression is uses random numbers (hence changes the random number generator seed): it restores the seed to its previous value so a test may be repeated.