From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/70101 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: General suggestion: Unit tests for ConText Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:20:57 +0200 Message-ID: <4E24BFD9.70908@wxs.nl> References: <20110718195148.4fa6e92f@freenet.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311031298 4087 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2011 23:21:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 23:21:38 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jul 19 01:21:32 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qix7z-0006lS-T6 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:21:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3909DCAE55; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:21:30 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id faq7NYrtZfZ2; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:21:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAFF8CAE3F; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:21:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BB1ACAE3F for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:21:25 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 32WbMFbIlkgf for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:21:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-ams.mf.surf.net (filter3-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.71]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1F78CAB80 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:21:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p6INL8Mv019623 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:21:09 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.101; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.101] (unverified [10.100.1.101]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.2a) with ESMTP id 1773-1713362 for multiple; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:21:04 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: <20110718195148.4fa6e92f@freenet.de> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0cF9zl8sO - 1d6fab8a10ce - 20110719 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.71 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:70101 Archived-At: On 18-7-2011 7:51, Peter Schorsch wrote: > Hi, > > during my work with context I wrote a bunch of fewliners mainly to test > how to do things. When there change from mkii to mkiv occured many of > my mini-tests failed and later with the growing of mkiv restartet to > work - some just without adaption.. some with some adjustment to a new > syntax. > > I realize that they have the same functionality like unit-tests - > just instead of comparing classes and variables - a pdf-output is > visually compared. > > So I like to suggest to introduce unit tests for context. It would > > a) increase the quality of context as it makes the > testing easier for the developer > > b) it also would be a great source of minihowtos for learning > context. > > Before I write my technical ideas about this I would like to know what > are you thinking about this idea? fyi: there is an archive with a bunch of tests (mostly mine but I occasionally add -adapted- samples from the list): http://www.pragma-ade.nl/context/latest/cont-tst.7z Quite some of these can be used for testing, some can also serve as examples of usage. I have a script that can process them and keep track of changes at a rough pixel level but simply have no time to keep up with that. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________