[Qgis-developer] Labeling unit tests and bug fixing

[Martin Dobias]

Hi Larry

just a quick thumbs up - it looks very good - looking forward to
finding some time and trying it out!

Regards
Martin


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 1:19 AM, Larry Shaffer <larrys at dakotacarto.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've mostly finished the labeling unit test framework (at least for *nix).
> You can read about the setup in its README [0] and about the local test
> server [1], if interested.
>
> I'm happy to report that there is considerably good parity between all
> outputs now (at least from my testing on Mac), especially since the advent
> of mulit-threaded rendering. However, there are only a few actual unit tests
> right now. The only outstanding issues revolve around too much antialiasing
> in test renders.
>
> There is still some CMake coding to do, adding modules for the now-required
> utilities when ENABLE_TESTS=ON. These are currently:
>
> * lighttpd (local HTTP server)
> * spawn-fcgi (qgis_mapserv.fcgi spawner)
> * poppler, with cairo support (composer PDF -> image rasterizer, for
> comparisons)
>
> There still needs config files set up for lighttpd/spawn-fcgi on Windows.
>
> I'll be triaging labeling bugs and trying to fix them, while ensuring
> regression tests are in place and passing. Then I'll add more unit tests for
> general API stuff.
>
> Lastly, I will be putting forth a proposal concerning a redesign of the
> labeling classes, which includes rule- and style-based labeling. That will
> come after an effort on the previously noted bug fixing.
>
> Any help with the bug squashing (or anything related to this stuff) would be
> greatly appreciated. :-)
>
> [0] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/tree/master/tests/testdata/labeling
> [1]
> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/New-Python-QgsLocalServer-and-standard-fonts-for-testing-td5104818.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Larry Shaffer
> Dakota Cartography
> Black Hills, South Dakota
>
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