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Re: Archiving tests...
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Richard Frith-Macdonald |
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Re: Archiving tests... |
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Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:31:17 +0000 |
On 22 Mar 2013, at 17:07, Gregory Casamento wrote:
> I'm thinking that some tests of GUI classes might be in order as well. I've
> been thinking lately about how best to test GUI.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Richard Frith-Macdonald <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
> On 22 Mar 2013, at 16:32, Gregory Casamento wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering if it might not be a good idea to have a test which looks at
> > all classes which implement NSCoding and archives and unarchives them to
> > check that the result is what is expected.
>
> The test framework has test_NSCoding() which does this (and
> test_keyed_NSCoding() for classes which support keyed coding).
>
> > Also, it might be a good idea to have a set of data which was archived on a
> > 32 bit machine and on a 64 bit machine etc and check to see that machines
> > of all architectures and word sizes can read archives by all other
> > platforms.
>
> The tests in the coding subdirectory do at least some of that. IIRC they
> test 32bit archives ... adding 64bit archives would be nice.
While the sets of archived data in the coding dsubdirectory of the base
testsuite are obviously base-specific, the test_NSCoding() and
test_keyed_NSCoding() functions are general purpose, applying to GUI (or in
fact any) classes.
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