Re: common C++ test suite

[Marcelo Dalmas]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:48:45 +0100
Federico Montesino Pouzols <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
>       Hi,...
> 
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:41:34PM -0800, Chad Yates wrote:
> > Common C++ community,
> > 
> > As some of you may remember, I wrote some test suites in cppunit last
> > month and I would like to submit them as the beginnings of a common
> > C++ test suite as we had discussed then.  however it has a couple of
> > issues I am hoping a more experienced common c++ developer or
> > maintainer can help with, as I am a gnu autoconfig/automake newbie,
> > I'll admit it. :)  also since I typically develop using m$ visual
> > studio 6.0 I'm not that proficient with developing/debugging on the
> > linux environment.
> > 
> > My date classes have some tests that are failing now with the recent
> > patches submitted that add the new YYYY/MM/DD style formats instead of
> > the YYYYMMDD formats.  whether the interface is changing or whether
> > the tests need to be updated to the new format needs to be determined.
> > 
> 
>       I would expect Marcelo's opinion, though I think that we
> should keep backwards compatibility.

I agree. I wrote a new patch and I will test it with Chad's test suite
before send it.
> 
> > My persistence tests (pretty extensive), work fine under windows, but
> > throw exceptions under linux.  I don't yet know why, and since I
> > haven't come to grips with a linux debugger yet (I've been babied by
> > VC++'s gui debugger), I can't dig into the reason yet.  I have another
> > test case under windows, but am not going to add it at this time as it
> > has some linux compilation issues.
> > 
> > There are generalized test classes for the digest tests, however I
> > could never seem to get decent results out of the SHA digests on
> > windows, they may work fine under linux, though the testcase
> > registration macros are commented out right now.
> > 
> > There are also tests for the urlstring file including base64 encode
> > decode.
> > 
> > I have attached a zip file containing a zipped directory called
> > ccxx_tests designed to be uncompressed under the commoncpp2 main
> > directory.  eventually I would hope the contents would live in tests
> > instead, and all the existing tests changed to components of the
> > cppunit test suites, or something similar.
> > 
> 
>       Um, I would like the new tests to go directly into tests/, and
> integrate the old tests as soon as possible. Since there seems to be a
> few issues to solve, I would put the new tests there now for the
> development branch, and, when these issues are clarified, commit the
> new test suite for the stable releases. This would be a very
> interesting new feature for 1.0.9. It would also be interesting to
> include the VC++ project files for the test suite.
> 
>       Do you agree with this plan?
> 
> > I have also attached a diff of the changes I made to the configure.in
> > and Makefile.am to get it to build for me on my linux machine,
> > however, I didn't get the check for cppunit to work to my liking, and
> > am sure the changes I made were not ideal.  hopefully someone with
> > more expertise in autoconf/automake can make better changes there.
> > 
> > Anyway, I wanted to get this out there and in cvs so others can
> > contribute if wanted, and so we would have somewhat of a base to
> > start/learn from. Also, it would be a good habit for contributors to
> > get the hang of adding suites/testcases while finding/resolving bugs
> > and making enhancements. This way some inadvertant sideffects can
> > hopefully be avoided.
> > 
> 
>       I totally agree.
> 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > chad
> > 
> > P.S. I spoke with albert today, and he will be contributing his
> > testcases etc a bit later.  Feel free to contact me if you have
> > questions, comments/suggestions, or if you have trouble compiling it. 
> > I will contribute new suites/testcases as I develop them.
> 
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