[OctDev] test_octcdf.m

[Paul K. <pki...@us...>]

Alex,

test_octcdf.m with %! tests and nothing else isn't the correct way to 
write an independent test file.

For one thing, it means you have to type "test test_octcdf" to use it, 
which is awkward.

For another thing, test_octcdf shows up on the list of functions but it 
isn't one.

The technique used for main/sparse is slightly better.  There I wrote 
build_tests.sh which creates main/sparse/sptest.m with the following 
header:

##
## sptest
##
##    run preset sparse tests.  All should pass.
function [passes,tests] = sptest
   disp('writing test output to sptest.log');
   test('sptest','normal','sptest.log');
endfunction

%!...


Perhaps an even better solution is to create the file octcdf.test and 
modify admin/mktests.sh to include files with the .test extension.

These should probably be installed as well, and the test suite should 
know to look for files with the extension .test so that we can type 
'test octcdf'.

Comments?

- Paul

On Dec 15, 2005, at 12:39 PM, alex wrote:

> --- NEW FILE: test_octcdf.m ---
>
>
> %!shared fname, nc
> %! fname = [tmpnam '-octcdf.nc'];
> %! nc = netcdf(fname,'c');

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