XMLParser's XML-Tests-Conformance project, which is automatically generated from the W3C's Conformance Test Suites project (https://www.w3.org/XML/Test/), stores the contents of its files in class methods. This way it's self-contained, portable, and the actual files only need to be downloaded and unzipped to regenerate the TestCases.
Consider extracting it into a separate project with a separate CI job if it gets too big. > Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2017 at 12:52 PM > From: "Peter Uhnak" <i.uh...@gmail.com> > To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org > Subject: [Pharo-users] best practices for using external files for testing > > Hi, > > is there a common/best practice for using external files in tests? > > In my specific case I am interested in git-based projects, where I have a big > (~1MB) file stored in repository and I would like to use it in my tests. > > For GitFileTree project I could presumably use the following to access it: > > 'OP-XMI' asPackage mcPackage workingCopy repositoryGroup remotes first > directory / 'tests' / 'my-test-file.xmi' > > This will retrieve the MCPackage of the Package and then retireve where it > the repo is actually stored on the disk. > > Are there better ways to do this? Could something similar be done with > IceBerg? > > (p.s. in theory I could compile the entire file (e.g. 1MB) to a method, but > that is very ugly to me) > > Thanks, > Peter > >
