TestingGuidelines
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- When adding a new concrete class, a test should also be added in
...VTK/Package/Testing/Cxx/
- The name of the file for the test should be ClassName.cxx where the name of the class is vtkClassName.
- Each test should call several functions, each as short as possible, to exercise a specific functionality of the class. 1,000 lines in main() is very hard to maintain...
- The "main()" function of the test file must be called TestClassName(int, char*[])
Questions
- Do we bother covering deprecated classes?
- Is there a way to mark deprecated classes as deprecated so they do not show up on the coverage dashboards?
- What is our target coverage percentage? 70%?
- How to test abstract classes?
- Can we create a system that checks for the existence of a test file for every concrete class? This would be a great place to start to improve coverage.
- When should a new "test prefix" be started? By adding tests to a list like this:
CREATE_TEST_SOURCELIST(ArrayTests ArrayCxxTests.cxx
they show up when running ctest as:
Start 33: Array-TestArrayBool
