We have a very simple mechanism that is quite effective:
- build a model using your actor - put in an instance of the Test actor (in More Libraries/RegressionTests) - put that Test actor in training mode - run the model - put the Test actor not in training mode - save the model in any of the test/auto directories (there are many in the tree).
The model then gets automatically run every night by our nightly build. If the actual results differ from the training data, then the Test actor throws an exception, which gets reported as a test failure.
Edward
At 12:22 PM 4/18/2005 -0700, Zimdars, Andrew wrote:
To date, I've taken an ad hoc approach to testing new Ptolemy actors I've written: I draft the Java implementation, put together a simple MoML model (source + new actor + sink), and inspect the output. I would rather have a more disciplined approach (possibly with JUnit), but I'm not sure how to instantiate suitable a "minimal" Ptolemy runtime, and I couldn't find any examples in the ptII-4.0.1-src tree.
Ptolemy developers (both at UCB and in the community at large): what sorts of "best practices" have you evolved for developing and testing your Ptolemy actors (including/in addition to unit tests)? Are there example test cases in the Ptolemy source distribution that I didn't see on first inspection?
Thanks,
Andy Z.
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