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README.tests
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Instructions for standalone test regressions of libxml2
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libxml2-tests-$version.tar.gz contains 3 standalone C programs as well
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as a large amount of tests and results coming from libxml2 itself and
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from W3C, NIST, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and James Clark. Each C
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program has a different testing purpose:
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runtest.c : runs libxml2 basic internal regression tests
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runsuite.c: runs libxml2 against external regression tests
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testapi.c : exercises the library public entry points
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testchar.c: exercise the check of character ranges and UTF-8 validation
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The command:
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make check
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or
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make -f Makefile.tests check
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should be sufficient on an Unix system to build and exercise the tests
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for the version of the library installed on the system. Note however
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that there isn't backward compatibility provided so if the installed
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version is older than the testsuite one, failing to compile or run the tests
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is likely. In any event this won't work with an installed libxml2 older
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than 2.6.20.
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Building on other platforms should be a matter of compiling the C files
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like any other program using libxml2, running the test should be done
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simply by launching the resulting executables.
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Also note the availability of a "make valgrind" target which will run the
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above tests under valgrind to check for memory errors (but this relies
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on the availability of the valgrind command and take far more time to
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complete).
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Daniel Veillard
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Mon May 7 2012
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