Re: automated (or otherwise) tests for graphics code?

[Thomas Weber]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 01:45:02PM -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> We seem to be having a lot of regressions in the graphics code
> lately, so maybe it is time to start thinking of some way to provide
> tests for these functions.  Unfortunately, I don't have any good way
> to do automatic tests for most of the graphics functions since the
> results are visual.  

Is this the new backend or the gnuplot one?

It seems gnuplot produces identical images (md5sum matches) for
identical input. 

        Thomas