Re: Regression test

On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:05:00 -0600 (MDT), Joey Smith wrote: >Great. Now my second question... >I want to create a test for dbase_add_record(). >In order to test that it IS working correctly, I need to compare against >a .dbf created as a by-product of the function. I'm not sure how to >compare 2 dbf files...does the regtest framework support this? > [-- Little late with this response, I've been on hols, so maybe you answered it anyway.... --] The regtests use diff to compare files, so yes, you could compare 2 dbf files. If there is an error, the output may not be very intelligible... Maybe you could exercise the dbase module and output the return values from the functions, kind of add_record() echo success_or_disaster add_delete_records() echo success_or_disaster dump_tables_in_csv_format. That way there is a standard text output file.... cheers -- jalal --