On 8/29/12 8:22 PM, Sébastien Brisard wrote: > Hi, > testing of special functions involves comparing actual values returned > by CM with expected values as computed with an arbitrary precision > software (I use Maxima [1] for this purpose). As I intend these tests > to be assesments of the overall accuracy of our implementations, the > number of test values is quite large. For the time being, I've inlined > the reference values in double[][] arrays, in the test classes. This > clutters the code, and I will move these reference values to resource > files. > In order to limit the size of these files, I'm considering binary > files, the obvious drawback being the lack of readability (for those > of us who haven't entered the Matrix yet). > So what I would propose to add a readme.txt file in the same resource > file directory, where the content of each binary file would be > detailed. > Would you object to that? > I'm thinking of reserving the *.dat extension to these binary files. > This would entail renaming a few resource files from *.dat (I had > myself introduced in the optimization.general package) to *.txt. Is > that OK?
Unless the files are really huge, I think its better to stick with text files, but as long as you include the readme and keep it up to date, I would be OK with this. We have a lot of test files in src/test/resources for various purposes now. I like the ones in /stat because they include documentation about where they came from / what they mean in the files themselves. Phil > > Thanks for your advice, > Sébastien > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
