Re: A newbie question

You can get the test runner by typing "TestRunner open" in a workspace (really, anyplace that you can type text) and then selecting it and choosing "doit" from the menu. This is how you evaluate a Smalltalk expression. If you read the SmallWiki workspace then you will see that you evaluate expressions like server := SmallWiki.SwazooServer startOn: 8080 to start up the wiki server. But you wanted to run tests. The test runner has a bunch of tests, which you can see on the pulldown list at the top of the test runner window. Ideally, you could just press "RunAll", except that you will see that nine tests fail. They are mostly in Swazoo, a package that SmallWiki uses. This is with VW7.2 on Windows. John Brant suggested that the problem was in OSkSocket>>setAddressReuse: I commented out the big message to self by putting " around "self setOptionForLevel: ... value: optionValue" Then I could start the wiki, but one of the tests still failed. It was Swazoo.SwazooSocketTest>>#testReadTimeout. I read this test, and discovered that it reads from a socket and sets a timeout, but for some reason the timeout never happens. It is only supposed to wait for .2 seconds, but it waits forever. This is with VW7.2 on Windows. You can select tests one after another Novices shouldn't have to fix this. Wait until the authors fix the problem. -Ralph Johnson