Re: [xml] XML regression test cases...

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:54:47AM -0700, Jain, Nilesh wrote:
> > requires
> > quite a bit of data, and results may still deviate a bit over time
> > (sometimes
> > serialization changes), it at least ensure most of the main APIs are
> > working
> > correctly.
>
> If these test are checking the behavior of specified ABI, then why
> result deviates assuming ABI are stable.  

  Because they implement a few thousand pages of complex specifications !

> >  testapi is rather an internal test, and testsuite is way too focused
> > on specific schemas issues (plus it requires globs of data).
>
> Why do you think testapi is internal test cases, where as to my
> understanding these are testing all the public interfaces of library. 

  Because they are only testing that it doesn't crash nor leak.
You could add them, their value is low compared to runtest. Also it will
go though internal APIs and deprecated ones as well.

Daniel

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