Re: [Doxygen-users] Doxygen testing (was: hide undocumented enums)

[Peter S. <pet...@hu...>]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 21:22:43 +0200, Dimitri van Heesch wrote:

>> Another, simpler possibility would be a collection of input files and
>> approved output files to compare to with 'diff' each time a code
>> change is made. To automate these tests shell scripts or dedicated
>> tools like dejagnu could be used.

> I think this would make the tests rather fragile. If I tweak something
> on the output (for instance use a table instead of a list somewhere) 
> that would invalidate all tests. Another problem is how to verify that the
> generated diagrams contain the correct information.

When postprocessing the HTML files (perhaps with lynx or some other
tool) and thus extracting only the textual information, these diffs
could surely be made fairly robust. But I agree that basing on XML
sounds like a more optimal approach...

Regards

Peter
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