Unit tests in Singular kernel

[benjamin schnitzler]

Dear Singular developement team,

I recently started to wonder, if there is an official Unit-testing-Interface for Singular and found some Code in tests/Singular . Is this usable and an official method? How do I use it (I tried to understand it, see the next paragraph)? How do I compile it? How to use it from within the Singular kernel?

As far as I understand it, I have to write a test-class lying in Singular::tests which hast to inherit from CPPUNIT_NS::TestFixture, say Singular::tests::ExampleTestClass. I have to write some test function members, say test_member() and have to register them in the class. I also have to implement public setUp() and tearDown() methods and a virtual Destructor. Is that all, do I need anything else, e.g. would this be a valid test-class:

namespace Singular {

  namespace tests {

    class ExampleTestClass : public CPPUNIT_NS::TestFixture {

      CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE(Singular::tests::ExampleTestClass);

      CPPUNIT_TEST( test_member );

      CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE_END();

    public:

      virtual ~ExampleTestClass() {}

      void setUp();

      void tearDown();

    private:

      void test_member();

    };

  }

}

(Well I guess it would be useful to make test_member() protected if I wanted this test to be extendable.)

Thank you for your help,

Benjamin

[Oleksandr]

Hi Benjamin,

AFAIK, that part is current not useable by Singular ([master]) in any way :(

Note that in [Spielwiese] Singular we use a light-weight unit-testing-framework: CxxTests (see libpolys/tests/), 

which is easier to use. Therefore it is not likely that we will resurrect that part in [Spielwiese] anytime soon.

Sorry, but i can only help with writing unit-tests for [Spielwiese] Singular.

Cheers,

 Oleksandr