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