Re: [Libreoffice] comprehensive binfilter tests?

On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 20:37 +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> So the chance of regressions remaining undetected for quite a while
> is IMO higher here than for other typical code changes.

        Made more so by the fact that almost no-one uses the filter ;-)

> (And the cost of analysing the regressions, if they are eventually
> found, will also be rather high, given the aggressive pruning of
> allegedly dead code in the meantime).

        Surely git bisect is pretty impervious to the size or number of
changes ?

> >     I imagine that something useful for testing binfilter's import (we
> > killed export) may be quite simple
..
> >     Is that what you were thinking ? :-)
>
> I wasn't thinking anything in particular

        :-) well - if it turns out that, due to the un-varying nature of the
binfilter export, we can just couple the binary -> ODF 'import' of <N>
files, capture that as flat-odf, and diff the files vs. known-good
templates quickly; perhaps we can end up with a fast, simple &
debuggable in-process unit test for this involving almost no code, and
that is rather useful of course.

        Regards,

                Michael.

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