[GRASSLIST:483] Re: [GRASS5] GRASS test suite

Thomas Adams Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov
Thu Mar 30 15:19:14 EST 2006


Sören,

This is excellent! I hope to go through this over the next several days. 
I think the test suite will also help users to identify bugs in a more 
coherent way for the developers and those who are more expert with 
particular modules.

Regards,
Tom


Sören Gebbert wrote:
> Hi all,
> since some weeks i'm developing a test suite for GRASS.
> I have implemented a test frame work and some basic tests.
>
> I would like to have some feedback from the devs and users if the concept 
> of the test suite is correct or even meaningful, because i'm thinking a test suite is very important 
> for GRASS, especially for the development process.
>
> I hope to provide an environment for easy test development to support
> stability and error reduction for GRASS.
>
> You can download the latest test suite and the test location here:
> http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~soeren/grass/GRASS_TestSuite/GRASS_Testsuite.tar.gz
> http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~soeren/grass/GRASS_TestSuite/spearfish_grass60data.tar.gz
>
> The test suite will only work correctly within the test location (this is the newest 
> not modified spearfish60 location) and with a fresh grass-6.1 cvs version!
>
> If you run the test suite, you can compare your results with my results:
> http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~soeren/grass/GRASS_TestSuite/html/GRASSSummary.html
>
> I made a (currently incomplete) video tutorial in german and a pdf presentation in english and german.
> Because i'm not a nativ english speaker, i would encourage the native's to check the
> english presentation. It would be a great help for me, if you can support me to write better
> presentations and tutorials. 
>
> The video tutorials and the pdf presentations are available here:
>
> http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~soeren/grass/modules/
>
> The video tutorial is splitted into two parts. The first part is completely in
> german and shows only the presentation, which are also available 
> in english and german as pdf and OpenOffice2 format.
>
> The second part of the video tutorial shows the handling of the test suite and ist partly in german (the small text parts).
> Those small text parts are also available in the english pdf presentation.
> So if you read the english pdf presentation, you can easily follow the second part of the tutorial.
>
> English presentation:
> http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~soeren/grass/GRASS_TestSuite/GRASS-Testsuite-Presentation-OO2-New_en.pdf
> Part two of the tutorial:
> http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~soeren/grass/modules/Tutorials/Testsuite/Testsuite_Tutorial_part2_de.html
>
> I wish to add an english tutorial too, but have no time for that for the next months.
>
> Thank you in advance for your
> comments, suggestions or constructive criticism. 
> Everything is welcome!!
>
> Best regards
> Soeren 
>
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