[GNC-dev] GNUCASH Test Data

[c.holtermann at gmx.de]

Hello all,

just reading this. When I started to look into the unit tests for
python I wondered if there was some test data to read. I thought
it would make more sense to first test reading and then test writing.

I wonderes if there was some example date that the c as well as
the bindings could be tested on. I think that would be useful.

Generating and checking such file acts like a test for the whole
system.

regards,

Christoph


Am 11.11.18 um 12:54 schrieb Sébastien de Menten:
> Hello Chris,
> 
> I am definitely interested into such gnucash data set of 
> books/accounts/etc
> for testing piecash (reports, performance,.. ). With the transition to
> gnucash 3 coming to maturity, I planned to convert/rework the existing 
> set
> of sample books (
> https://github.com/sdementen/piecash/tree/master/gnucash_books) so if 
> you
> have something that may be useful in this respect...
> Did you already share something on GitHub?
> 
> Sebastien
> 
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2018, 03:05 David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com 
> wrote:
> 
>> Chris Millsap, Chris Good
>> 
>> There is some limited test and example data in the GnuCash sources
>> .../gnucash-src/doc/examples. Not very extensive. These days a lot of
>> testing effort is shifted towards unit tests rather than extensive 
>> overall
>> functional tests although they still have a place. I would think there
>> would
>> be a serious problem in validation of a data set and then the 
>> maintenance
>> issues you alluded to. Another difficulty would be defining a test 
>> data set
>> which would cover the various feature sets adequately, e.g. business,
>> trading, multicurrency etc. To define an adequate test data suite 
>> would
>> also
>> require an extensive knowledge of the code base in any case.
>> 
>> Possible but is it really worth the effort? In accounting if major 
>> features
>> like compliance with the accounting equation, zero sum for transaction
>> splits are broken, then it will be generally obvious very quickly and 
>> the
>> unit tests on the engine seem likely pick that up.
>> 
>> What is it that you would wan't a test data suite to do that is not 
>> covered
>> by the existing unit tests?
>> 
>> David Cousens
>> 
>> 
>> 
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