[Pkg-octave-devel] Functional testing of DOG packages

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le samedi 24 juin 2017 à 21:59 +0200, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> Lintian is now triggering the testsuite-autopkgtest-missing warning on 
> the DOG packages.  Has anyone already thought about how we should handle 
> the issue ?

We could implement automatic test generation for octave packages. This
is done by the autodep8 package, that already automatically generates
tests for add-ons of several languages.

For example, for R packages, it automatically adds a test that checks
whether the package correctly load. So nowadays all R packages have a
testsuite, even though for most of them it is rather minimal.

Similarly, we could add a test for octave-* packages that runs "pkg
load XXX" in octave.

A more sophisticated test could be to run tests for all *.m and *.cc
files (as we already do at build time).

Looking at the source of the autodep8 package, it looks quite easy to
add our own stuff.

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