[Pmwiki-users] Re: Re: Request for method to let plugins execute code after stdconfig.php

[chr@home.se]

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:

> Seems like there would be a use for a tool that analyzes a plugin and
> gives a report of which variables/functions it uses/modifies.  Then
> you could have another tool that does this for pmwiki and all of the
> plugins and identifies potential points of conflict.

Hmm... you mean like a debugging tool that checks which variables exist 
(and what they contain) before a plugin is executed, and then compares 
this to the state afterwards?

That might be useful... isn't there a name for that kind of tool?
instrument-something?

I guess it could even be automated if we could overload 'include_once' to 
automatically invoke this tool.

> It's not so much work if you have a suite of regression tests setup so
> that you can see if anything has changed. Then you only have to do the
> manual inspection and modification if/when a regression test fails.

I wish I had those tests set up though... have you seen any links to tools 
that lets you do unit tests of php-scripts (i.e. like plugins for pmwiki).

For the version of 'upload.php' I've done, I could really use a serious 
testing suite.

/Christian

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