Re: regression testing

["D Bera" <dbera web gmail com>]

Hi Alex,

> I'm sure someone has mentioned this before but it seems that a good
> way of preventing all the bugs that people complain about (broken
> filters, not all content indexed) might be caught more quickly if
> beagle had a repository of various files that indexing can be tested
> on every night.

Thanks for reminding me.
I created a repo a month ago at
http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/beagle/testfiles
(change it to an svn address when checking out). This contains both
normal files and crash-files.

> Coupled with a program to generate stats about what keywords were
> extracted, how long it took how much ram was used e.t.c this would be
> really cool and useful (the cairo folk do this rigorously to track how
> their performance changes every release).
>
> I'm too busy to write the code but I have plenty of sample files I can
> donate to the test repository :)

Same here :-)
I put up the files there and am hoping someone writes a simple script
to run beagle-extract-content on them and match the output/memory/time
against stored values.

Alex, if you have donatable files, add some. The repo is a bit
unorganized, no directories by filetypes and so on, but they can be
changed if needed by the script writer.

Thanks in advance to the test-suite author ;-),
- dBera

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