[Users] test suite data files commits to svn

[Erik Schnetter]

On Apr 18, 2010, at 22:14 , Bruno C. Mundim wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have seen a few Thorns with a lot of test data files committed
> to the svn repository. I was wondering if that is really necessary.
> Committing only the parameter file that generates all those data files
> seems more natural to me and avoids unnecessary network traffic  
> whenever
> we update the thorns. Besides it is cleaner and easier to spot what  
> was
> really changed/updated. What do you think? Should we adopt as best
> practice not committing the data files themselves? and commit only the
> test suite parameter files?


Yes, test cases are often the largest part of a thorn, that's a bit  
strange.

It would be nice to have a mechanism to compare test case output  
against analytic solutions (with a certain tolerance).

-erik

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