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Reorganization of expect(), amGoingTo(), comment(), wantTo()
#6146
ThomasLandauer
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Currently, there are 4 "comment" methods that all do (almost) the same:
-vvvor--steps)So I'm suggesting to drop the first 3 in favor of
comment(). Reasons:commentis self-explanatory in the sense that it gives you a hint where/how this will be displayed.amGoingToandexpectToare non-saying.$I->comment('I expect foo');wantTo()is not documented #6076 (comment)And then there's
wantTo()which is inconsistently displayed when called multiple times:... leads to:
Having some way to add a comment to the test overview output is very handy. But
wantTois semantically the wrong term for it; and the$I->syntax leads to unanswerable questions when called multiple times.Suggestions? Maybe an annotation above the function instead of a method within the function?
This would resolve #6076 and #6075
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