[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: proposal for a test harness
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:36:30 -0600
Thanks, Mesar. This looks good.
John
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 03:46:45PM +0000, Mesar Hameed wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> On Wed 22/02/12,10:15, Christian Egli wrote:
> > > I feel that many problems can be found and ironed out if the liblouis
> > > had an extensive test harness for the various tables.
> >
> > I'd be happy to work with you on this.
>
> Thanks, this would be great.
>
> > > This is how I personally managed to quickly find a somewhat working
> > > solution.
> >
> > Are you saying you have some kind of test harness?
>
> Yes, attached, not sure if it is as flexible as we want it to be, but it did
> the job for me.
>
> 1. Create a harness directory at the same level as tables, tools etc.
> 2. Place the two attached files there.
> 3. cd harness; python runHarness.py
>
> All the test data is stored in the *_harness.py file.
> each table that should be tested should have its own harness file with test
> cases.
> Each file specifies the table, and the test cases that should be run against
> it.
> Each test should have:
> A comment explaining the purpose of the test.
> (unicode) text input,
> (ascii braille) expected braille output.
>
> The expected output for test 3 is deliberately wrong to show you the format
> for when a test fails.
>
> The harness file is simple and should hopefully encourage people to
> contribute tests for their tables.
>
> If you have suggestions for improving or extending this please let me know
> and I will see what can be done.
>
> Thanks.
> Mesar
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