Re: [OctDev] how someone can help improving tests

[David Bateman]

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> Hi all
>
> I have read the short discussion about helping with the tests.
> Now I was wondering if I can read somewhere on the octave or
> octave-forge page something about testing.
> I could not.
>
> Maybe it's helpfull (also for beginners) if somewhere on a page
> are some sentence written about 
> "how to start improving tests" or something similar. Maybe at the wiki page?
>   
Check the chapter of the manual

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Test-Functions.html#Test-Functions

> Now for my own interests, what exactly happens if I enter "make check" after
> compiling the octave source?
> I see running a lot of tests. I think this are the tests in the m-files
> where the lines start with %! but I'm not sure.
>   
"make check" checks all *.cc and *.m fiels in the octave source tree for 
lines starting with "%!", extracts them and passes them the the "test" 
function of Octave. Once it has done that it executes all of the 
stand-alone test scripts that are in the octave/test/*.m directory. Note 
that the stand-alone sparse test script is actually built with a shell 
script before actually being used.
> Writing tests for m-files which doesn't have them can be a good start to learn 
> how octave
> works and how some code looks like.
>
>   
I couldn't agree more.

D.

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