--- !ditz.rubyforge.org,2008-03-06/issue 
title: add some common test case helpers
desc: |-
  For example:
  
  * Many test cases use a wrapper which does try-catch and then prints
    out either error 'name' or full error message (if error is unexpected).
    This can be shortened by a helper with a function argument.
  
  * Many string test cases would benefit from safe printing of strings,
    either as a plain codepoint list, or using ASCII only escaping for
    non-printable characters.
  
  * Getting and printing property descriptors.
  
  * Printing values with explicit type information, implementation independent
    printing of functions (e.g. print "function name=X"), etc.
  
  Some of these helpers could be added to some shared helper object.
  Others could naturally go into prototypes; for instance:
  
    print("foo\u1234bar".toCodePointString());
    "foo\u1234bar".printCodePoints();
type: :task
component: duk
release: v0.8
reporter: sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
status: :unstarted
disposition: 
creation_time: 2013-03-14 21:30:40.519732 Z
references: []

id: 18f1769f0eff355381c7f90fb59ba5097e64e5af
log_events: 
- - 2013-03-14 21:30:40.692697 Z
  - sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - created
  - ""
- - 2013-03-28 21:43:52.112892 Z
  - sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - assigned to release v0.5 from v0.4
  - ""
- - 2013-04-21 19:32:13.669342 Z
  - sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - assigned to release v0.6 from v0.5
  - ""
- - 2013-08-02 14:54:00.809979 Z
  - sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - assigned to release v0.7 from v0.6
  - ""
- - 2013-09-29 10:01:18.923387 Z
  - sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - assigned to release v0.8 from v0.7
  - ""