Re: [Boost-testing] BoostBook Test Suites

Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] BoostBook Test Suites
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-08 11:15:48

AMDG

Muhammad Rehan Shaukat wrote:
> This is Rehan, working on Google Summer of Code project "BoostBook
> Integration with DocBook<http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/BoostBookIntegration>"
> under the supervision of Stefan Seefeld. The aim of this project is to
> migrate BoostBook DTD schema to Relax NG schema that then will be added as
> an extension to DocBook5.
>
> Currently, we are looking for some test suites (or test documents), already
> written for BoostBook code base, so that we can check the backward
> compatibility of newly generated grammar (in Relax NG format). I checked the
> BoostBook code base but could find any relevant information about test
> suites.
>   

I don't think there's a real test suite.  In practice, we have
just built the Boost documentation to check changes to
BoostBook.

> If no test suites are available then please suggest how can we fully assure
> the backward compatibility of newly generated grammar. In this case, I think
> we need to write manual documents/tests for each rule defined in current
> BoostBook DTD.
>   

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe

P.S. This should really go to the docs list.  Cross posting there.