[xmlroff] Nearly ready for xmlroff 0.5.1

[Tony Graham]

On Sat, Jul 07 2007 08:27:42 +0100, fleury at labri.fr wrote:
> Tony Graham wrote:
>> I'm impressed that you ran the test suite.  AFAICT, not many people do
>> that.
>
> Hum, I though it was the best way to know if it was working or not. O:-)

It is.

...
> Ok, it's non-regression/unit-testing checks.

Mostly.  Tests should be added when something new is implemented, and
from them on they are used to test for regressions.  I've also used the
'testing' module to compare xmlroff output against output from other
processors.

I actually had three changes in my test results, including two segfaults
that were cleared up thanks to [1].

> About the testsuite, I've been impressed by the framework developed
> here. The final report stored in index.html is quite nice to browse but
> some links are pending with nothing on the other side (especially there
> are no PDF file). Did I do something wrong (I tried to follow the
> README) ? Is there way to improve this or to know more about this test
> framework ?

Thanks for your kind words about the testing output.

I added ticket #39 about the PDF links that won't resolve.  It should be
a simple XSLT fix since it would be a variation on the existing
stylesheet logic that emits "No output" text when there is no PDF.

I'm afraid that the README is the best info available.  There's also
some text about it in my XTech 2007 paper [3].

Of course you can ask questions about it here.

There are some tickets about the 'testing' module [2].  Feel free to add
tickets about issues that you find or, if you are so inclined, fix any
of the open tickets.

Regards,


Tony.

#39 http://xmlroff.org/ticket/39

[1] http://xmlroff.org/changeset?new=trunk%2Fxmlroff%2Flibfo%2Ffo%2Ffo-root.c%4042&old=trunk%2Fxmlroff%2Ffo%2Ffo-root.c%404
[2] http://xmlroff.org/report/1?sort=component&asc=1
[3] http://www.menteithconsulting.com/wiki/XTech2007/MyStylesheetRunsBut#xmlroffTestingModule