[Bioperl-l] Testing BioPerl objects for equality

[Bernhard Schmalhofer]

Ewan Birney wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Peter van Heusden wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've got an idea for testing where I'd like to 'round-trip' through
>>SeqIO: read in from a file on disk, write out again with write_seq() and
>>then read in the file written by write_seq() and compare the two
>>sequence objects. If they aren't equal, it means we've got a problem.
> 
> 
> That sounds like a great idea... we've always had problems with diff'ing
> the files because of whitespace issues, but diff'ing the objects sounds
> great.
> 
> 
>>To make this work requires some kind of equals() method on Seq,
>>SeqFeature, etc. This doesn't seem to be there at the moment - or am I
>>missing something? Maybe there should probably be some kind of
>>Bio::ComparableI interface which provides an equals() abstract method.
>>
> 
If the roundtrip is starting from a file is a specific format, shouldn't 
it be possiple to compare the data structures of the sequence object 
directly?
I was think of using something like Test::More::is_deeply(), which tells 
you where the data structures start to become different.

CU, Bernhard
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