Re: Archiving tests...

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> On 22.03.2013 17:32, 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Seems like a very good idea to me. Riccardo suggested something 
> similar last week when we discovered the encoding differences for 
> enumerators.
>
> For gui the main problem is that there aren't even tests for most of 
> the classes :-(
I was thinking also something along this: open a "reference" gorm file. 
Save and reload it. The result won't be byte-by-byte comparable (e.g. 
dictionaries) but it would test quite a bit. The Gorm file shouild have 
several elements. DO you think it is feasible?
I nthe time, several gorm files could be added, with different versions 
and this would check aslo retro-compatibility.
Exceptions need to be catched too, to cactch the type mismatches I got.

Riccardo