Re: [GSoC interval] Re: Update and questions regarding vecorization

[Joel Dahne]

Oliver Heimlich writes:

>> I have almost finished my work on the testing framework.  There is some
>> cleanup required with how the framework handles array constructors in
>> various supported languages before I can push the change.
>
> I have pushed the new changesets to the ITF1788 and the octave-interval
> repositories.  Make sure that you run “make clean” after you have
> updated your workspace with these changes to also update your ITF1788
> workspace.
>
> The tests can be run with “make test-bist” (it's not yet possible to
> properly use “test @infsup/plus” after “make run” or “make
> install”—though you can use it after “make dist” + “pkg install …”).
>
> So far, I have only started to integrate the new test format for the
> plus function [1].  There is a loop which calls the function on scalar
> inputs (for all test cases), which is equivalent to the old generated
> tests in test/*.tst.
>
> Also, I have demonstrated how to do a vector evaluation of the function,
> where all test cases are given as column vectors in a single function call.
>
> You can probably reshape the testcases easily to test for proper
> element-wise ND array evaluation.  Also, you may add this new kind of
> tests to other methods, the test data contains test cases for various
> functions.  I will not continue to work on that task myself during GSoC
> to prevent merge conflicts.
>
> Oliver
>
>
>
> [1]
> https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/interval/ci/2eaf1a499291865f051cca883bbca5eb017038b5/tree/inst/%40infsup/plus.m?diff=1b8686048dae314217bb1b4aa40c8e9fe4c261af

Great! I will take a look at this next week!