Hello all, I'm currently working as part of my job for Nokia on cstester a tool to test loading and painting for stage, tables and words. The aim of the tool is to make sure there are no regressions added when features are modified. This is done by loading the document and comparing some pre generated images of the content with created images of the content. Also a good code coverage should be possible to reach by using this method it uses a lot of code when doing that.
The idea is to create a document set which contains features and test these documents on a regularly basis. There are still some open questions: - Most important one is how to make sure font rendering is always the same. One idea here is to create a virtual image that can be used to run the tests. - What is the best way to store the test set and images used for testing Should we create a new repository where the documents are stored. - How to automatically run the tests to find regressions. I will shortly commit the branch cstester-zachmann How does it work Creating the images used for verifying cstester --create test.odp will create the test images used for comparison. One needs to make sure the images are as they are expected to be. The images to check will be created in the directory test.odp.check so you need write access to the directory the file is in. Verifying that still all works fine cstester --verify test.odp This will load the document and create images of the content and then verify them against the images saved in test.odp.check It is possible to run the tool on multiple files at once by specifying muliple files on the command line cstester --create test1.odp test2.odp test3.ods test3.xls Currently it has support for documents which are supported by stage and tables. words is going to follow. Other document types should be easy to add. I also have plans for the future to extend the tool by: - adding a save / load circle to test that all is saved and loaded correctly and we don't have any data loss there. - adding odf verification for the saved data Also we are working inside Nokia on a set of documents that can be used for this kind of testing. This documents will then be available for the community. Thorsten _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
