Testing reports

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> Ah. I learn from that link that Rspec is Ruby's implementation of
> "Behavior Driven Development" [1]. Since Gnucash is a "legacy"*
> project, it's a bit late -- or early -- to embrace that paradigm., but
> we can still apply the testing strategy.

That was my point, to apply the strategy, not necessarily the
implementation.

>  It doesn't appear to me that Rspec would work very well testing
>  non-Ruby programs, but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise. But
>  that might be unnecessary if we can find tools which are a better

Or we could roll our own.  I don't know how much work it would be to do
what I suggested in my last email.  Basically we just need a way to run
a report against an instance of a data file, get the HTML output, and
normalize said output.  Then it's just a question of running various
reports against various test file fixtures and comparing the normalized
HTML outputs to "known" values.

-derek

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