Tests for executable

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Tests for executable

Closed this issue 22 days ago · 5 comments

We collect molfiles that elicit specific behavior (e.g., errors): https://github.com/IUPAC-InChI/InChI_Dev/tree/main/Development/Test_structures/Molfiles

Answer 1 · 2024-09-12T07:40:55.000Z

Did you already pick a unit testing framework? I am familiar with Catch2 but I guess it's as good as any leading one nowadays. However, I started using that one because of the extremely simple steps I needed to integrate it in the cmake build. If you like, I can provide you with a scaffold to add tests after I finalize the changes for cmake support in #37

Answer 2 · 2024-09-12T07:41:17.000Z

By the way, the link is 404

Answer 3 · 2024-09-17T06:50:26.000Z

Did you already pick a unit testing framework?

I was considering pytest (calling InChI via https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html or https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html). I'll look into https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2 as well, thanks for the suggestion!

Answer 4 · 2024-09-17T06:51:51.000Z

the link is 404

I should stop referring to https://github.com/IUPAC-InChI/InChI_Dev/, seems pretty volatile.

Answer 5 · 2024-09-25T06:47:42.000Z

Closing with 290f547.

Note that technically, these aren't unit tests. The artifact under test is the InChI executable rather than specific code units. In a sense what's being done here is "black box" testing, expecting the "black box" (i.e., executable) to generate specific results for specific inputs.