On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta <cucino...@sssup.it> wrote: > On 09/01/13 09:12, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >>> There are however >>> two other areas that could be tested quite easily: >>> >>> a) Export of .lyx documents (to .tex, .html, whatever) >>> b) lyx2lyx >>> >>> In both cases you would have a set of input files, and compare the generated >>> output with a reference. I bet that introducing those tests would find bugs > >> OK this is good to know and does seem easy and useful. I might look >> into this in a few months but since I haven't worked with exporting >> much I might not get to it for a while longer. > > There's a partial testing of lyx2whatever conversions: the > autotests/export-in.sh > script tries to test conversion of all documentation in lib/doc/, to xhtml > and "lyx16x" formats. Can't remember why just those, guess one of those > conversions > was triggering a crash.
Kornel just added a few more formats, pdf, pdf2, and pdf5. This (when I ran it locally) caught some failures in the math manual. These three extra formats were only implemented for CMake though. > > So, if none of these conversions crash, the test succeeds, otherwise you can > enjoy > seeing which formats and .lyx doc files have troubles. > I don't know whether this alternate launch of .sh scripts has been also > ported to > the recent cmake infrastructure. Yes, Kornel ported it fully to export-in.sh in the same directory. > For what it matters, one can trivially include in the tested > formats all the supported LyX "-e XXX" formats. Just, it's going to take a > huge time > to complete, so a bit boring to run... :-) -- a remedy might be to > multi-core-ify > those lyx export requests, as they're all batch and none of them requires the > GUI. I figure it's much easier to get rid of tests than to write them. From what I understand, no one doesn't use the tests because they take so long to run. I think there are other reasons. I agree that multi-core-ifying the export tests would be nice. Thanks for the responses, Scott
