Re: Fwd: Malayalam & SF_PROCESS_ZWJ

[Eric Mader <emader icu-project org>]

You might take a look at ICU's "letest". It reads an XML file with test 
cases and expected results. It's not 100% fool-proof because I use the 
LayoutEngine to generate the expected test results, but it does alert me 
if something has changed.

http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu/trunk/source/test/letest/
http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu/trunk/source/test/testdata/letest.xml

Regards,
Eric

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 23:02 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> > To begin with the efforts, we (the Bengali team) have been using a
> > very rudimentary test case of our own
> > (http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/FreeBangTemplate/juktolist.txt)
> > for testing the fonts that we have developed. It is based on a list of
> > possible conjuncts (taken from a spelling dictionary commonly used for
> > our language) and also based on the experience we have gathered while
> > working on Bengali and FLOSS for the past five years. If such a list
> > can be compiled for the other scripts as well, we may have the
> > beginning of a Indic test suite that has been discussed in various
> > forums/workshops/conferences/mailing lists for the past four years (at
> > least)
>
> I'm working on such a test suite.  That's the only way to put an end to
> the current practice of fix-one-bug-introduce-three.