On 2002.02.19 02:23:35 -0500 Ara Abrahamian wrote:
> > + It's way better than nothing (probably)
> > + It's simple
> > - it breaks on many many irrelevant changes
> > 
> > Can we run diff from ant to get a report?
> 
> I was also thinking about it, but it breaks if you clean and then build.
??why, if the comparison standard is in cvs, it won't get removed with
clean.
> 
> > What I have been thinking of for a testsuite base involves
> > 
> > an xml comparator (insensitive to formatting, just sensitive to
> content).
> > I wrote one of these for a different testing purpose, I think it would
> be
> > easy to use here.
> > 
> > a class examiner that compares the properties of 2 classes to make
> sure
> > they are the same.
> > 
> > These would be somewhat more complex than running diff on text files,
> > however I think it might be worthwhile to avoid sensitivity to
> formatting
> > changes.
> 
> The best solution. Sure the examiner is written once but the problem is
> we have a huge codebase and it'll take a huge amount of time to write
> such test suites.

I don't see your point.  We'd just check an allegedly OK version of the
stuff generated from samples into cvs.  When you add a new sample, if you
forget to check in a "correct" generation product, you will get a friendly
error message.  Are you saying writing enough samples is a very large job?

david jencks

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