Re: Some tests for Turtle

Awesome.  Thanks, Andy!

Regards,
Dave




On Oct 12, 2012, at 12:05, Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com> wrote:

> Here are some tests for Turtle as a seed of a test suite.
> 
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jena/Experimental/riot-reader/testing/RIOT/Lang/
> 
> --> TurtleSubm
> 
> These are the tests from the Turtle submission, cleaned up.
> 
> --> Turtle
> 
> New syntax tests.  Work-in-progress.
> 
> - - - - - - - - -
> 
> The "jena/Experimental" area is not in the current release codebase
> and can changed at any time (i.e. no release code freeze)
> 
> == TurtleSubm/
> 
> These are the tests from the Turtle submission, cleaned up to make them passable.  e.g. test 29 had a bad URI characters - parsers that do basic character range checks as in the Turtle LC grammar would flag this as an error.
> 
> TurtleSubm/manifest.ttl
> TurtleSubm/manifest-bad.ttl
> 
> == Turtle/
> 
> This is work-in-progress and I'll be adding more tests over the next few days as time permits.
> 
> Turtle/manifest.ttl
> Current License: ASL2 (changing to W3C Software license is no problem)
> 
> Only syntax tests (positive and negative) and all tests are in a single manifest file (good and bad syntax tests).
> 
> == Manifest
> 
> The tests use the manifest format which is a general framework or "action" and "result".  Tests are typed. It was specialised and used by SPARQL 1.0 and I know some other people use it for their tests other than SPARQL.
> 
> But also the tests are systematically named (by and large) so there is no need to write a complex test environment.  I hope it will be relative simple to incorporate the tests into any environment with as little overhead as possible.
> 
> The test suite serves two purposes : getting the Turtle spec through W3C process but also as a community resource beyond the working group for validating parsers.  Creating good coverage is some thing we can share.
> 
> 	Andy
>

Received on Friday, 12 October 2012 16:32:15 UTC