Automatic coverage testing of mapserv?

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:23:16 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:
> My goal is to create tests that can run automatically, and which can
> be used both to detect bugs in mapserver, but also to exercise as much
> of the code as possible.  When the tests are working, I plan to run
> the tests within valgrind and check any problems reported by valgrind.
> The problems reported should be checked out and fixed.  I hope I get
> this far. :)

Petter,

In addition to Sean's mapscript based unit test, I also maintain
a test suite that can be run automatically.  They can be checked out
of CVS as "msautotest".  There is a topic in the wiki that discusses
the msautotest series.  It primarily operates using shp2img to
render maps in a variety of configurations.  Most of the testing is
in the area of raster features ... my area of most work.

Rather than starting yet another completely different test methology
I would encourage you to look at adding into msauotest.  I'm sure
a "mapserv QUERY_STRING=... " style test would fit into it quite
naturally, and I would be willing to cooperate on it.

  http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MSAutoTest

Best regards,
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