Re: Archiving tests...

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 22 Mar 2013, at 16:32, Gregory Casamento wrote:

> I'm wondering if it might not be a good idea to have a test which looks at 
> all classes which implement NSCoding and archives and unarchives them to 
> check that the result is what is expected.  

The test framework has test_NSCoding() which does this (and 
test_keyed_NSCoding() for classes which support keyed coding).

> Also, it might be a good idea to have a set of data which was archived on a 
> 32 bit machine and on a 64 bit machine etc and check to see that machines of 
> all architectures and word sizes can read archives by all other platforms.

The tests in the coding subdirectory do at least some of that.  IIRC they test 
32bit archives ... adding 64bit archives would be nice.