OpenEuphoria

Re: Regression Testing

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Jul 18, 2005
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Jason Gade wrote:
> I follow the D programming lists even though I don't contribute or really
> write anything
> in D.  But the question occurs to me about regression testing.
> 
> Before reading the D list I never really knew what regression testing was. 
> I'm sure
> that Walter has his own set of tests, but every time something doesn't meet
> the published
> spec, Thomas Kuehne adds it to his project called DStress and tracks it.
> 
> Is there anything formal like this done for Euphoria or Win32lib?  How about
> other
> projects?  What kind of regression testing is done for Euphoria or Euphoria
> projects?
> How are results tracked?

A good example of a regression test is euphoria\demo\sanity.ex
It quickly and automatically self-tests dozens of features.
I run it and many other programs when I'm adding new code.
I also have a sanity2.ex that I haven't released. I often add new
tests to these programs when a bug is detected.
I also interpret/compile/bind many large programs such as the IDE. 
For testing the translator, I save all the .c and .h files in a 
directory, and then I do an A vs B diff to see where the 
C code has changed. That's a good way of confirming that a 
new optimization does what it's supposed to do and 
doesn't introduce a bug.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com