custom-set: update, remove and re-order tests #454

robphoenix · 2017-01-17T14:02:18Z

updated tests for custom-set #328

for reference:
exercism/problem-specifications#232
exercism/problem-specifications#257

robphoenix · 2017-01-17T14:05:43Z

"I'll just quickly regenerate these custom-set tests" I thought.

Well, this was an interesting learning exercise. I got a wee bit carried away and I realise I've made some drastic changes to the exercise here, and my brain has melted a little bit, so am very open to any and all criticism and am OK with the possibility of discarding this. 🤷‍♂️

petertseng

Sorry not done reviewing yet (ran out of time, will have to do again in a few hours)

I haven't done this particular exercise in Go, so that means to determine whether the idea to provide type Set map[string]bool is a good idea I can only phrase it in these questions:

If you've participated in conversations on this exercise, did people indicate that they enjoyed the challenge of coming up with what internal representation to use for the set? Or did they rather focus on implementing the set operations?
What about you when you did this exercise? Well, I assume you wanted to focus more on the latter, but should make sure I guess
When looking over others' solutions, do you see a lot of variation in the implementation of their sets? For example do some people just use a []string and make sure it has no duplicates on add? If pretty much everyone just used map[string]bool anyway, then we don't lose anything, but if people were, say, split 50/50 between map[string]bool vs []string, then maybe we have taken some freedom away.

petertseng · 2017-01-17T22:08:02Z

exercises/custom-set/custom_set_test.go

-	testBinOp("SymmetricDifference", SymmetricDifference, symmetricDifferenceCases, t)
-}
-
-func BenchmarkNewFromSlice1e1(b *testing.B) { bench(1e1, b) }


does the benchmarking not make any sense anymore? or was it jus tmoved?

removing this was just an accident.

robphoenix · 2017-01-20T12:40:34Z

Honestly, I've not done the exercise yet, and this is a rather opinionated change that has not come from a need to improve the exercise from it's current form. What I think I'll do is change it back to using the String as before, leaving the structure of what a set is open for interpretation, and then that change can be a separate PR if there's a qualified view that such a change needs to be done. Leaving this PR to just the updates from the canonical-data changes.

robphoenix · 2017-01-20T14:23:27Z

ok, I've updated this so that it just reflects the changes in the canonical data now, and rebased on master.

petertseng · 2017-01-21T05:00:16Z

exercises/custom-set/custom_set_test.go

-			t.Fatalf("%v IsEmpty = %t, want %t", s, got, tc.want)
+		s.Add(tc.ele)
+		want := NewFromSlice(tc.want)
+		if !Equal(s, want) {


There's an interesting ordering quirk now that we've done this. In the previous version, the Equal test came very early. Notice how there is a test that says "With Equal tested, remaining tests use it to judge correctness." Whereas here, a test that uses Equal comes before the actual test of Equal, so it seems that we miss this property. This, I see, was a guiding desire for the reordering done in exercism/problem-specifications#257. Might be better to keep it that way. Unless there is a strong reason to do it this way (I think you made it so that all binary operations happen in sequence, etc.)

ah, yes, I remember what I did now, I had them all in the order suggested, and then forgot while cleaning things up a bit and grouped all the methods together, silly oversight on my part, thanks again for the catch @petertseng

petertseng · 2017-01-21T05:05:50Z

exercises/custom-set/example_slice.go

-		if e == v {
-			return
+// String returns a printable representation of s.
+func (s Set) String() string {


I got a distinct sense of deja vu when reading this file, since it appears you made the exact same change in example.go. Then I realized, wow, we have two example files in here, one with []string and one with map[string]bool, and control which one to build with build flags. Though nowhere in Travis do we build with any build flags, so this means this file is never tested, and is susceptible to going out of date. Maybe one day we should test it. But that's a talk for another time. No change needed at this moment

robphoenix · 2017-01-21T10:42:36Z

ok, I think that should be everything now?

petertseng

just one more small thing I think (moving the order of the functions in the comments)

petertseng · 2017-01-21T20:37:50Z

exercises/custom-set/custom_set_test.go

-// Subset(s1, s2 Set) bool     // return s1 ⊆ s2
+// (s Set) IsEmpty() bool
+// (s Set) Has(string) bool
+// (s Set) Add(string)


Should these be listed in the same order they are tested? I think that was what you were going for. In that case, let's move this one down.

updated tests for custom-set exercism#328 for reference: exercism/problem-specifications#232 exercism/problem-specifications#257

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updated tests for custom-set exercism#328 for reference: exercism/problem-specifications#232 exercism/problem-specifications#257

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