Re: [lmi] organization of XML actuarial tables

[Václav Slavík]

Hi,

On 26 Apr 2012, at 19:57, Greg Chicares wrote:
>> BTW, automatic exhaustive testing is easy in this phase: load all tables
>> from XML and SOA in parallel, call specific_values() for all possible
>> values, compare the results. It's ~10^4 specific_values() calls per table,
>> that doesn't sound too bad. I plan to do this in any case, to satisfy
>> myself that the XML code is correct.
> 
> Perfect. May I see your automatic-testing code when you've written it,
> just to get another pair of eyes on it?

Certainly. I meant to ask you to run it on your non-public table files, in fact.

> I don't think I've mentioned this important point: we actually use only
> a few of the tables in the public 'qx_*' files. For example, 'qx_ins'
> contains a table of mortality for Nottingham in the year 1793, which is
> of interest only to historians. We can give you a list of the tables we
> do use; when would you want that?

I think I won't even need it, it's not necessary to burden you with compiling 
this list. I'll have the converter tool just dump all tables into files and 
we'll then keep just the ones that are used.

Regards,
Vaclav