[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: [liblouis] r642 committed - Added version2 of runHarness, based on nose tests....

  • From: Mesar Hameed <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 13:08:12 +0100

Hi,
On Tue 29/05/12,12:54, Michael Whapples wrote:

> As for extending the JSON test files for other cases, I have some ideas. It 
> mainly revolves around an idea that a "type" field could be given 
> to specify what type of test is to be performed (if type is not given then 
> the standard translate test is assumed), and then one gives 
> relevant fields for that test type, some fields may be required others might 
> be optional. This should mean that all test types would be 
> fairly compact.

Agree, Attila and I are already working on this, although personally I will not 
have much time before the weekend.
new fields so far:
'comment': a n optional comment field to describe the purpose of the test.
'direction': [f/b] forward/backward translation, if omitted assumes forward.

The more tricky one is how to do we want to represent mask information, 
compactly, for tests for bold/italic etc.

> I still see advantages to the doctest system as it provides examples and can 
> run any type of code, however it seems harder to support python2 
> and python3 in a single file for them.

If we need more flexibility, that the standard harness doesnt give, the test 
writer can always write test_xxx which can test any functionality 
that may be required. They are fully valid python functions.
This should also be still more cross compatible with p2/p3 than the doctests.

How do you feel about this?

Mesar
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