Testing reports

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

>> So, what's a good test harness for a Scheme report against the GnuCash
>> backend?
>
> For what value of "good"?
>
> There are already some rudimentary tests in the test subdirectories; they mostly just test that you can load a module. The test functions that drive the "make check" tests are in test-core and they are wrapped and accessible from guile. You could surely catch some regressions by expanding those tests.
>
> That still won't guarantee that a new report option developed for one report will get propagated to  all of the other reports.

Moreover, the tests we have don't have a way (AFAIK) to test for the
results of a report.  I think we can test that a report loads.  We might
even be able to test that a report runs.  But I don't think we actually
test the output of the report to make sure that e.g. the report
generates the "correct" output.

I don't know how we could change that.

> Regards,
> John Ralls

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-derek

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