[Gdal-dev] Re: unit testing (Re: Re: GDAL 1.3.1 Alpha 2 Released)

[Ari Jolma]

Charlie Savage wrote:

>
> So in my opinion, the autotest suite has been absolutely invaluable, 
> because its a whole lot easier to port a bunch of tests than it is to 
> develop them from scratch.  


I think I agree with this. Although I believe some diversity is usually 
good. It may also be quite difficult to maintain all the test codes so 
that they are identical in this sense.

> I think it would be great if it could be ported to every language - as 
> a sort of "official" stamp of approval for that language working with 
> GDAL.  That would then make it possible to test changes to the SWIG 
> interface files, press a button, and make sure you didn't break 
> something in the Java bindings, or the CSharp bindings, or the Python 
> bindings.


That's a very good reason. A recent change in shape2ogr.cpp comes to 
mind..  ;) I think this is good overall.

Ari

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