On 09/01/13 09:12, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>> There are however
>> two other areas that could be tested quite easily:
>>
>> a) Export of .lyx documents (to .tex, .html, whatever)
>> b) lyx2lyx
>>
>> In both cases you would have a set of input files, and compare the generated
>> output with a reference. I bet that introducing those tests would find bugs
> OK this is good to know and does seem easy and useful. I might look
> into this in a few months but since I haven't worked with exporting
> much I might not get to it for a while longer.
There's a partial testing of lyx2whatever conversions: the
autotests/export-in.sh
script tries to test conversion of all documentation in lib/doc/, to xhtml
and "lyx16x" formats. Can't remember why just those, guess one of those
conversions
was triggering a crash.
So, if none of these conversions crash, the test succeeds, otherwise you can
enjoy
seeing which formats and .lyx doc files have troubles.
I don't know whether this alternate launch of .sh scripts has been also ported
to
the recent cmake infrastructure.
For what it matters, one can trivially include in the tested
formats all the supported LyX "-e XXX" formats. Just, it's going to take a huge
time
to complete, so a bit boring to run... :-) -- a remedy might be to
multi-core-ify
those lyx export requests, as they're all batch and none of them requires the
GUI.
T.
