[boost] How do folks test serialization code?

Subject: [boost] How do folks test serialization code?
From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-04 13:39:47

Title almost says it all, how do you verify that your classes serialization 
code is truly platform independent, and doesn't accidently break later?  I 
have some trivial tests that round trip to a stringstream using 
boost::archive::text_i/oarchive, but of course that only verifies that 
platform-specific serialization works.  So what do folks do - generate text 
archives on different platforms, deserialize and compare?  How does 
Boost.Serialization itself verify this?

Cheers, John.