[Gdal-dev] Re: GDAL 1.3.1 Alpha 2 Released

[Ari Jolma]

Frank Warmerdam kirjoitti:

>On 10/1/05, Charlie Savage <cfis at interserv.com> wrote:
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>>Check out gdalautotest from CVS.  There is a test-suite in Python, and a
>>partial one in Ruby (its slowly growing).
>>
>>Ari, maybe this is where the Perl tests should go to stay consistent?
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>Charlie,
>
>I have prepared a 1.3.1 snapshot of the autotest suite at:
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>  http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdalautotest-1.3.1.tar.gz
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>A small autotest capability within the swig/perl directory is fine.
>However, at the point where it needs significant amounts of data
>or other complexity I would appreciate it moving into the
>gdalautotest tree.
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>

I confess I haven't looked at the autotest suite at all. The test code 
(test.pl) in swig/perl is a top-down, boot-strap test. It is a top-down 
test in the sense it tries to test everything that's available through 
the Perl API in a general sense. It currently overlooks very many 
details and does not check against programmers errors (because many 
mistakes still cause a segfault). It is a boot-strap test in the sense 
that it creates a gdal dataset or an ogr datasource first with known 
properties and then opens it and checks if the properties come back the 
same. I'm planning to put more tests for checking that the interface 
works as it should (typemaps are ok) and that it is more fool-proof.

gdalautotest-1.3.1.tar.gz is 283k and gdal-1.3.1a2.tar.gz is 6.5M. A stupid question comes to mind: why are they separate? 

Testing is of course a large subject but I'd like to have a good self-test an integrated part of the Perl module as is common (required in fact) in Perl world (the normal install procedure is perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; make install). The current test.pl is 15k and will probably never be more than 30k.

Charlie, what do you mean exactly with the "stay consistent"?

All the best,

Ari


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