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How do I code lots of simple tests

Jeremy Fincher tweedgeezer at hotmail.com
Wed Oct 22 00:46:31 EDT 2003 
Paul Moore <pf_moore at yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:<brsawdmh.fsf at yahoo.co.uk>...
> 1. If a test fails, the rest are skipped! If there's a pattern to the
>    failures (the code handles numbers ending in 4 and 9 wrongly, for
>    example) it's much easier to find if all of the checks are
>    reported.

That's true, but most of the time when I test, I prefer that behavior.
 Many of my  asserts depend on the success of the assert prior to
them, so I want the test to fail as soon as one of the asserts has
failed.

It'd be nice to have both possibilities, though.

Jeremy
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