[mapserver-dev] cunit / RFC 12

[Frank Warmerdam]

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Devs,
> 
> As I work through the postgis driver, I'm wanting to test individual
> components of it (data defn parsing, SQL generation, geometry parsing,
> etc), without invoking a whole Mapserver run... sort of like unit
> testing. I might just write a wee program to do that, but I was
> wondering if a more formal approach is worth pursuing?
> 
> I see RFC 12 brought cunit to the plate, but that's as far as it went.
> Certainly, getting coverage of the code base this late in the game is
> going to be hard/impossible, but for new functionality, it has to be
> useful to have some unit tests in place as one works, no?
> 
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-12/
> 
> Any interest / disinterest in pursuing this?

Paul,

My preference remains to test specific functions as part of a larger
operations since we already have such technology in place (ie. msautotest)
or to expose the functionality through mapscript and use mapscript tests
like Sean's python unit tests.

I do not feel that introducing another testing methodology into the
project would be wise.

Best regards,
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