Re: [Opencxx-users] testsuit

[Grzegorz J. <ja...@ac...>]

Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Gilles J. Seguin wrote:
> 
>> Tests for the occ binary on the PATH environment variable
>>  <http://www.infonet.ca/segg/occ.tgz>
>> will unpack in occ directory.
>> $ cd occ
>> $ qmtest run    # will run everything.
>> $ qmtest run parse  # will do the same as 'qmtest run'
>> since we have only one directory.
>> $ qmtest run parse.access1  # will run only one test.
>>
>> The tests examine results from 'occ -p -s myfile.cc'
> 
> 
> nice ! Some suggestions, though:
> 
> you hardcode the path '/usr/bin/occ' in each single test descriptor.
> I'v just changed one to see that it works, and I'm not going to edit
> all these files :-)
> 
> What I'd suggest to do instead is defining a new test (python) class
> that is then registered with the database and used for all tests.
> Then you can configure paths and other stuff right into this class
> *once*.
> 
> Second I think it would be good to substructure the tests. In fact
> I'd suggest to write a new 'test database', and then use the subdivision
> into test suites to set up test types for each suite separately.
> 
> That will allow to tailor the test types, for example one suite/folder
> to test the Encoding class, one to test ptree generation / manipulation,
> etc., etc.
> 
> Note that this is exactly the approach I'v taken in synopsis, i.e.
> I wrote my own database and a handfull of test classes to do various
> things (one test class compiles a C++ file and executes it, another
> runs a particular synopsis processor on a specific input file, you
> get the idea...)
> 
> That said, I think what you'v done is a nice starting point ! 

Absolutely.

 > May
> I integrate it into my existing testing harness ?

Stefan, could we steer toward integration of what you have in Synopsis 
with what is currently in opencxx.sf.net ? I.e. could you integrate 
Gilles'  development it in a way that can be backported to (or merged 
with) the opencxx from SF CVS?

Thanks
Grzegorz



> 
> Regards,
>         Stefan
> 
> 
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