[mapserver-dev] cunit / RFC 12

[Tamas Szekeres]

Paul,

I think it would be valuable for any test suite to be executed
regularly for various platforms. If you submit those tests into the
SVN (into a separate directory) I could probably add those steps to
the mapserver buildbot instances having a brief description on how to
run the tests.

Is this something to get through a voting process? In this case I add
+1 to include the tests in the SVN repository.

Best regards,

Tamas



2008/11/10 Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>:
> Frank,
>
> Not a problem, I have my test cases off to the side and can continue
> to work on them for my own purposes without needing to commit them to
> get utility out of my own little test suite.
>
> P.
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
>> 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,
>> --
>> ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
>> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam,
>> warmerdam at pobox.com
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>> and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Programmer for Rent
>>
>>
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