Re: [AD] tests which are not comparing hardware/software drawing?

[allefant <in...@al...>]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Peter Wang <nov...@gm...> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:37:22 +0200, Elias Pschernig <
> eli...@gm...> wrote:
> > Are there any plans for enhancing our test framework for more general
> > tests? I added a test before where it doesn't really make sense to
> > run it for both memory and video since all it wants to do is ensure the
> > result of a single al_convert_bitmap call.
>
> It doesn't really hurt, though.
>
>
True.


> >
> > I guess for the above case a simple "software=off" key could be added.
> >
> > But it got me thinking, it would be nice to use the same test
> > framework also for other tests like ex_utf8 or ex_path_test. Haven't
> > really thought about how much work that would involve. Maybe to not
> > have to add a lot of functions to the parser we could do something
> > simple like:
> >
> > #include "test_utf8.c"
> > #include "test_path.c"
> >
> > from test_driver.c?
>
> Would that be better than simply separate executables which produce the
> same output format?  The summary would need to be moved out of test_driver.
>
>
True, just the same format would work. (Could even share just the output
function, but probably not necessary.) So baaically we could just move the
tests from examples/ into tests/ and add them to "make run_tests".