[Bioperl-l] test data

[Chris Fields]

On Jul 2, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Sendu Bala wrote:

> Chris Fields wrote:
>> I am planing on adding test data to cvs for eutils and have run  
>> across some stuff in bugzilla that needs to be added as well.
>> Should we, as convention, start adding data sequestered to a fold  
>> with the test name, within t/data?
>
> I'd actually argue that this shouldn't be done: data is sometimes  
> reused amongst multiple different test scripts, and when looking  
> for data to reuse its easier to spot it in a single directory  
> compared to searching through multiple directories.
>
>
>> This might make life easier in the long run (keep track of files,  
>> get rid of old files, etc), and may make it easier for wrapping up  
>> the correct data with tests if we start submitting single module  
>> CPAN updates.
>
> I don't think that will be an issue. The automated process would  
> read the test script and see what input files it uses, copying  
> those into the archive. So, just be sure to standardise on using  
> test_input_file() to make that possible.
>
>
> That said, I wouldn't mind especially either way. Just don't do it  
> now, since test script names (and therefore the name of the  
> directory you'd want to store the input files in) might all change.
>
>
> In fact we can imagine that we have a test script t/ 
> BioZombieKitten.t which stores its test data in t/data/ 
> BioZombieKitten/input.file but the script gets the path to this  
> file by:
> my $input_file = test_input_file('input.file');
>
> test_input_file() is then implemented to look for the file in the  
> subdir of data corresponding to the script name if we're dealing  
> with the 900-modules-in-a-package checkout-type situation, but just  
> in t/data if we're in the one-module-in-a-package situation.
>
> In any case, things will be most flexible if you drop files  
> directly into t/data for now and reference them without any subdirs  
> in the call to test_input_file().

Fine by me, I just find it very cluttered.

BioZombieKitten?!?

chris