Re: Recursively test mfiles in a directory

[John W. Eaton]

On  7-Apr-2010, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

| On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:42 PM, forkandwait <address@hidden> wrote:
| > forkandwait <forkandwait <at> gmail.com> writes:
| >
| >>
| >> I recently posted a hack the general list, which runs all the tests in a 
given
| >> file directory,
| >
| > Given the lack of interest, I am not going to worry about this code anymore 
and
| > just consider my own personal hack.  If anyone wants whatever becomes the
| > current code, send me an email and I will gladly share.
| >
| > F
| >
| 
| Since Octave packages normally have all m-files in a single directory,
| so I don't really see why I would need it.
| But it occured to me that you could use this idea to contribute a
| function that could do something similar to what glob or readdir do,
| but operating recursively on all subdirectories.

I checked in this change:

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/3b77db443cc0

With it, you can do something like

  octave:45> runtests polynomial
  Processing files in /home/jwe/src/octave/scripts/polynomial:

    compan.m ............................................... PASS    6/6   
    conv.m ................................................. PASS    6/6   
    deconv.m ............................................... PASS    7/7   
    mpoles.m ............................................... PASS    1/1   
    pchip.m ................................................ PASS    7/7   
    poly.m ................................................. PASS    4/4   
    polyaffine.m ........................................... PASS    1/1   
    polyderiv.m ............................................ PASS    4/4   
    polyfit.m .............................................. PASS    9/9   
    polyreduce.m ........................................... PASS    5/5   
    polyval.m .............................................. PASS    4/4   
    polyvalm.m ............................................. PASS    3/3   
    residue.m .............................................. PASS    4/4   
    roots.m ................................................ PASS    9/9   
    spline.m ............................................... PASS   16/16  

  The following files in have no tests:

  mkpp.m     polygcd.m  polyout.m  ppint.m    ppval.m
  polyder.m  polyint.m  ppder.m    ppjumps.m  unmkpp.m
  octave:46> 

It seems useful to me for users to be able to run the tests for the
script files installed in a given directory.  If this is not the
functionality that the OP had in mind, then please explain what it is
you are looking for.  I don't really see a need for this to work
recursively, but maybe if runtests is executed with no arguments, it
should just run tests for each directory in the Octave path.  I guess
I would consider a patch for that functionality if someone submitted
one.

jwe