[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #56937] BIST tests needed for interpreter format command

[Rik]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56937>

                 Summary: BIST tests needed for interpreter format command 
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: rik5
            Submitted on: Mon 23 Sep 2019 11:19:42 AM PDT
                Category: Interpreter
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Other
                  Status: Confirmed
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

The format command has many different styles (general, eng, bank, hex, rat,
etc.), combined with different options (short/long, compact/loose), combined
with different value types to display (real scalar, complex scalar, real
matrix, complex matrix), combined with other outside options such as
fixed_point_format().

Unfortunately, there are essentially no BIST tests and small changes can
introduce regressions as has already happened between versions 4.2 and 4.4
with respect to "format long".

It would be best if we had reasonable BIST tests so we could practice
test-driven development and not cause further problems while trying to fix the
ones that already exist.






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