On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:11:05AM -0700, Manish Marathe wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 12:13 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:01:35AM -0700, Manish Marathe wrote: > > > Yes they are, thanks for that. Can anyone please let me know if I just > > > add tests number for runtest, runsuite and testapi and say that there > > > total 298787 (2608 + 32064 + 264115) tests for libxml2 ? > > > > A number of test is not a good metric. You should not count testapi > > as such, it just exercises all library call to check against crashes > > or memory leaks. You should read what test code do and understand it before > > trying to use this as an assertion of usefulness or code coverage ! > > > > Yes, libxml2 has regession test code > > But you still need to understand what it does before complaining > > about change in those regression or trying to generate quality or > > regression statements based on the behaviour of running those tests. > > > > Daniel > > Thank you very much. Can you also throw some light on the tests for > libxslt. Well I understand that just the number would not be a good > metric. So for libxslt I executed the "make full" in the tests dir which > executed doc_tests too along with the test target but it would be great > if we would know that these are the real good tests for libxslt and then > finally the number of those real good tests.
In general all those tests are "good" they test the behaviour of the libraries. The behaviour may vary slightly between releases to conform to better understanding of the specs or evolution of said specifications. Usually they are platform independant. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Desktop team http://redhat.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
