Rebuild testing

[ijlyttle]

This is an expansion of #176, this would be a bigger project where we essentially rebuild the testing to use more-recent ideas in testthat.

In "live" testing, each test file should:

• create and write to its own unique test folder at Box; we can use uuid.
• delete its folder upon exiting.

We should have persistent folders at Box so that we can test searching.

We can also use snapshot testing to test our translation of Box API responses.

There is a README file in the testthat directory - this should be updated.

[nathancday]

I'm not sold on the uuid requirement. If re-organizing the tests is motivated by syncing names between R/ files and where they are checked in tests/ file, it feels like we should use those names for the Box folders too. Plus it's another dependency.

[ijlyttle]

The goal is uniquness, to avoid collisions between competing runs of tests, e.g. on my machine and CI. Perhaps the name of the test combined with a millisecond datestamp would do it.

[nathancday]

I never thought about competing runs of the tests. Would that be to test on multiple OSs?

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[ijlyttle]

It could be, but I wasn't planning on it - at least until I get the tests reworked.