[mapserver-dev] cunit / RFC 12

[Normand Savard]

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Devs,
>
> As I work through the postgis driver, I'm wanting to test individual
> components of it (data defn parsing, SQL generation, geometry parsing,
> etc), without invoking a whole Mapserver run... sort of like unit
> testing. I might just write a wee program to do that, but I was
> wondering if a more formal approach is worth pursuing?
>
> I see RFC 12 brought cunit to the plate, but that's as far as it went.
> Certainly, getting coverage of the code base this late in the game is
> going to be hard/impossible, but for new functionality, it has to be
> useful to have some unit tests in place as one works, no?
>
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-12/
>
> Any interest / disinterest in pursuing this?
>   
Paul,

I think in fact it could be a valuable tool.  I know that there were 
some discussions about this topic, see:

Issue #1664: Unit Test support for mapserver 
site:mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org


Norm