[mapserver-dev] msautotest viewer utility

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> [mailto:mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of 
> Normand Savard
> Sent: 26 September, 2008 11:21 AM
> To: mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [mapserver-dev] msautotest viewer utility
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> I created a small add-on to the msautotest tests tool created 
> by Frank.  
> This is a python based script that creates an HTML page to 
> display actual/expected images side by side to help 
> developers and testers verify results.  There is a third 
> column of images as well which is made of the actual and 
> expected images  superimposed on each other.  These images 
> are switched in alternance by pressing the button just above 
> to ease  the process of  detecting differences.
> 
> You can see a demo at:
> 
> http://dev3.mapgears.com/msautotest/pymod/
> 
> I hope that this will help msautotest users to be less 
> reluctant to use this test framework.  Please do not hesitate 
> to comment.

Excellent work Norm!  This would be great to commit to trunk, IMHO.

I would make a list of links to be able to select a mapfile to test
(i.e. sos.map, wcs_simple.map, etc.).  This would allow developers to be
able to test against a given mapfile.

Again, excellent!  I think this is a valuable add-on, especially for the
visuals.

..Tom