[GNC-dev] GNUCASH Test Data

[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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