[Gdal-dev] Re: perl tests

[Frank Warmerdam]

Ari Jolma wrote:
> Should be better now. The test code uses only hand-picked drivers for 
> the tests. What would be the best ones, i.e., those which cover all or 
> most of the methods? Now I set GTiff, MEM, EHdr (GDAL) and ESRI 
> Shapefile, MapInfo File, Memory (OGR).
> 
> My intention has been to start building tests that specifically test the 
> binding methods, also their behavior in the case of an error (no core 
> dumps, a textual error message). The current approach was the first easy 
> shot to test the basic common methods. Out of curiosity I made it to 
> test all drivers that are at hand.

Ari,

If the objective is to test the API, I'd think that testing one full
featured raster format, and one full featured vector format would
be sufficient.  The MEM and Memory formats are the two obvious candidates
for full featured-ness.  For real formats the GTiff and Shapefile are pretty
full featured though each format has a few particular limitations as well.

Best regards,
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