Re: [boost] Re: [Test or Build?] How to add dummy files and dirs to a test?

From: Rob Stewart (stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-24 17:55:02

From: Angus Leeming <angus.leeming_at_[hidden]>
> Rob Stewart wrote:
> > From: Angus Leeming <angus.leeming_at_[hidden]>
> >> 
> >> Currently my 'test' directory contains:
> >> $ ls .oo* foo*
> >> foo1bar  foo bar  foo!bar  foo]bar  foo*bar  foocbar  foo.hpp
> >> fooabar  foo-bar  foo?bar  foo{bar  foo\bar  foo.cpp  .oobar
> >> foo^bar  foo,bar  foo[bar  foo}bar  foobbar  foo.cxx
> >> 
> >> All 20 of these files have zero size; the idea is to test boost::glob's
> >> ability to find matches. However, I'd rather not have them as part of
> >> the library. How do I get the test framework to create them for me
> >> before running a test?
> > 
> > I don't know how to do what you ask, but you need more cases than
> > shown.  You should test with special characters at the start,
> > middle, and end of the filename.  You might even test with them
> > in those positions of the suffix and the rest of the filename.
> > Also, you should test with longer filenames and with multiple
> > suffixes.
> 
> I know, but it's a start.

No argument there.

> The real work is actually done by Boost.Filesystem and Boost.Regex. All I
> do is transform the glob into an equivalent regex using Boost.Spirit and
> then loop recursively over the "pattern tree" to build up the list of
> matching files. I think I've got all the corner cases covered, but the
> test suite will evolve...
> 
> Regards,
> Angus
> 
> PS, here's the test at the moment. "succeeded" means that the expected
> number of matches were found.
> 
> $ ls -a
> ../../../bin/boost/libs/glob/test/test_glob.test/gcc/debug/glob_test_dir/
> .        fooabar  foo-bar  foo?bar  foo{bar  foobbar  foo.cxx
> ..       foo^bar  foo,bar  foo[bar  foo}bar  foocbar  foo.hpp
> foo1bar  foo bar  foo!bar  foo]bar  foo*bar  foo.cpp  .oobar
> 
> $ ../../../bin/boost/libs/glob/test/test_glob.test/gcc/debug/test_glob
> Matching glob_te*/fooabar succeeded. 1 match found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo bar succeeded. 1 match found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo?bar succeeded. 15 matches found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo*bar succeeded. 15 matches found.
> Matching glob_te*/?oo?bar succeeded. 15 matches found.
> Matching glob_te*/*bar succeeded. 15 matches found.
> Matching glob_te*/.*bar succeeded. 1 match found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo[[:alpha:]]bar succeeded. 3 matches found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo[!]bar succeeded. 0 matches found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo[\!]bar succeeded. 1 match found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo[!!]bar succeeded. 14 matches found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo[]]bar succeeded. 1 match found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo[!]]bar succeeded. 14 matches found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo[a]]bar succeeded. 0 matches found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo[]a]bar succeeded. 2 matches found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo[^]bar succeeded. 1 match found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo[\^]bar succeeded. 1 match found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo[!^]bar succeeded. 14 matches found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo[!\^]bar succeeded. 14 matches found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo[*]bar succeeded. 1 match found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo[\*]bar succeeded. 1 match found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo[{]bar succeeded. 1 match found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo[a-]bar succeeded. 2 matches found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo[a-c]bar succeeded. 3 matches found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo.{c{pp,xx},hpp} succeeded. 3 matches found.
> Matching glob_te*/foo.{c*,hpp} succeeded. 3 matches found.
> 
> *** No errors detected

Looks great!

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