[Chandler-dev] Test case specifications on wiki for review/ comment

[Dan Steinicke]

Philippe Bossut wrote:
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>> Recurrence Test Spec
>> http://svn.osafoundation.org/docs/trunk/testspecs/rel0_7/Recurrence-0.7-testspec.html 
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> Very complete but it's somewhat tedious to read that flattened out 
> list while it looks like a series of 3 (or so...) nested loops of 
> tests. Think about a scheme to "factorize" the test cases so that the 
> plan is easier to read and maintain. 

I agree with you about the tediousness of reading these in the present 
form and like the idea of trying to somehow "factorize" them to improve 
readability.  I believe that the factorized version would need to be in 
the form of a summary or adjunct to the long list rather than a 
replacement to the long listing.  Both Aparna and Mikeal have expressed 
the opinion that the item by item list is needed (IIRC). 

Currently I am generating these from some python scripts.  Perhaps the 
scripts themselves could serve as the "factorized" version?   Or the 
scripts could be tweaked to create summaries as well as the item by item 
listing.  Otherwise I know that test cases need to be written for Cosmo 
and Mikeal is planning on creating some sort of web app to generate the 
test cases.   Perhaps the web app will address the issue of factorizing 
the test cases.

Dan