On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Stephan Ehlen
wrote:
>> > d) test unpickling of objects which seems to break rather often and is
>> > not covered at all by any of the doctests
>>
>> This can be done with doctests (possibly using the pickle jar).
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>
> How would the pickles be stored/distributed?
Thanks a lot for your answer, Jeroen.
On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 2:57:08 AM UTC-6, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
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> On 2016-06-21 23:06, stephan...@gmail.com wrote:
> > 1) You want to keep the source code clean so doctests should be “short”.
> But some test cases require more complicated code or h
> It's a little dangerous, our doctest framework uses the XKCD random
> number generator.
There's prior work by S. Adams:
http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25
Best,
Johan
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On 06/22/2016 04:57 AM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
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>> b) randomized test, example: check for a number of randomly
>> generated number fields that arithmetic operations with randomly
>> generated number field elements gives the correct results.
>> Randomized tests help to identify issues that occur wi
Big +1.
There's the sage/tests folder which seems to be a place where certain
developers who really couldn't help themselves put some additional
tests. But it doesn't go near as far as what you're proposing.
However, there's obvious issues wrt. ensuring that such tests gets
written once in a whil
On 2016-06-21 23:06, stephan.j.eh...@gmail.com wrote:
1) You want to keep the source code clean so doctests should be “short”. But
some test cases require more complicated code or have long output which you
would not like to add to the source code.
For long or special doctests, you can put th
Hi everyone,
I would like to discuss adding at least one more testing method to the sage
development process than just doctests (e.g. nose).
Doctests are certainly great but they have obvious limitations.
Some of them are:
1) You want to keep the source code clean so doctests should be “short”
