Testing reports

[John Layman]

Sorry about the URL getting chopped somewhere along the line.

http://tinyurl.com/brmtglc


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Subject: RE: Testing reports

See below a link to a paper describing an approach using separate test
oracles for content and structure and utilizing standard tools such as diff.

http://servo.cs.wlu.edu/pubs/bitstream/handle/id/179/sprenkle.issre07.pdf?se
quence=1


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Subject: Re: Testing reports


On Mar 26, 2012, at 6:47 AM, Colin Scott wrote:

> 
>> I don't know how we could change that.
> 
> Well, it would be a start to ensure that reports produced output in a
consistent format!  :-)
> 
> Once that is achieved, it ought to be possible reliably to define
"correct" output based on a template.  (But of course I know nothing of your
test environment, so it may not apply to you.  I speak of how I would tackle
the problem were it my project ... :-)
> 

Do you know how to write automated tests -- in any language -- that
accurately check the output format of an HTML page? Automated in this case
means the test program decides whether the formatting is correct, no human
involved. If you do, or know where I can learn that, please share.

The reports module doesn't have a test environment (and Guile doesn't
provide one until 2.0), but the requirement is for automated tests that
report success or failure to make check.

Regards,
John Ralls


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