kettle_test - Kettle - Testsuite Support
Welcome to Kettle, an application and set of packages providing support for the easy building and installation of pure Tcl packages, and Critcl based Tcl packages.
Please read the document Kettle - Introduction to Kettle, if you have not done so already, to get an overview of the whole system.
This command sources the file specified by the path. In contrast to the builtin ::source command, this resolves relative paths relative to the tcltest::testsDirectory.
This command sources all files found in the tcltest::testsDirectory and matching the pattern.
This command returns a list of all files found in the tcltest::testsDirectory and matching the pattern.
This command assumes that the package name is present, and verifies that we are using at least the specified version. If not the command aborts the testsuite in a manner kettle's test controller can detect and respond to.
This is useful for checking the versions of the Tcl core and/or tcltest. Note that the whole of kettle assumes to be run under at least Tcl 8.5, and having tcltest 2 available.
This command is a wrapper around Tcl's builtin package require which aborts the testsuite in a manner kettle's test controller can detect and respond to if the specified external package is not found.
The type can be one of support, or testing, indicating the use of the package in the testsuite, i.e. a supporting package, or the package under test itself. Exactly one package should have this type.
This command is like kt require above, except its search of packages is restricted to the local packages provided by the test controller, which should be the package under test, and its local dependencies, if any.
This command takes a Tcl dictionary, sorts its contents by its keys (lsort -dict), and returns the sorted dictionary.
This is useful to impose a canonical order on dictionary and array results whose natural order can change between Tcl versions, or package revisions.
This package, written by Andreas Kupries, is BSD licensed.
This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. Please report such at the Kettle Tracker. Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for either package and/or documentation.
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