[PD] Pd Test Suite

[Fred Jan Kraan]

Hi Mario,

In the days of pd-extended some template patches were created that 
compared generated data with a reference data set.

See https://git.puredata.info/cgit/svn2git/libraries/testtools.git/.

Greetings,

Fred Jan

On 10/06/2020 12.45, Mario Buoninfante wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Like I mentioned a couple of days ago, I'm currently working on a 
> simple test suite for Pd, hoping this could be useful when working on 
> new features/releases.
> The idea is to have a high level test suite that doesn't test the 
> source code but instead runs Pd, then launches the tests and gathers 
> results.
> Of course this approach, like everything, has its pros and cons.
> I suppose in the pros list we have:
> - easy to setup and run
> - not testing single "units", but "units" in a bigger context
> - easy to maintain/populate
>
> In terms of cons:
> - reports are quite generic - we know where it fails but then some 
> investigation is needed
> - not testing single units means something small broken can affect a 
> lot of tests (I suppose that's a good thing also)
>
> I'm sure there are more pros and cons.
>
> I am keeping the thing as simple as possible in the hope that anybody 
> can populate the test pool, run the suite and look at the results.
>
> Ideally at some point the suite will have a test for each Vanilla 
> object and also a test for each bug fix.
>
> I'm at a point where I'd like to get some feedback before going ahead 
> (ie "this is pointless!!!!!", "I won't bother using it", "I'd rather 
> do it this other way...", "I think it's ok", etc.),.
> I got something basic up and running (tested on Ubuntu Studio 20.04 
> and MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 only for now) that can be found here:
>
> https://github.com/mariobuoninfante/pdtest/
>
> Please if you have any time at all, give it a try and share your 
> thoughts (currently doesn't work on Windows simply cause I didn't have 
> any Win machine on hand, but it should be pretty easy to make it run 
> there as well).
>
> Cheers,
> Mario
>
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