RE: RDF query testcases?

my apologies - Jena also has regression tests for rdql using N-triples
and others using RDF/XML, in

Jena-1.6.0/modules/rdf/regression/testRDQL

RDFStore also has tests for both types of file.

Libby


On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Libby Miller wrote:

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>
> Thanks Andy - I'm just having a look at
>
> Jena-1.6.0/src/com/hp/hpl/jena/rdf/query/test/*
>
> What you've done is build the models up by hand into a Jena model and
> then queried them. This is definitely an advantage over specifying the
> RDF/XML files, because you're not testing the parser as well as the
> query engine. But to be more general, we'd have to specify a file format of
> some kind - I'm wondering whether RDF/XML is the one or whether
> N-triples would improve the matter or complicate things....what do you
> think?
>
> Would you be happy for me to try to get your tests into my RDF manifest
> or something similar? (I don't have an RDF schema for that btw Alberto).
>
> cheers
>
> Libby
>
>
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Seaborne, Andy wrote:
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> >
> > The test cases for the RDQL in Jena are shipped with the standard Jena
> > distribution - you can pull them out of the CVS repository on SourceForge as
> > well.
> >
> > The control (manifest) file is not RDF - but it could be.  Tests take the
> > form
> > (query, data, expected result set) and there is code that tests the expected
> > result set is equivalent (same values for variables, subject to bNode-isms,
> > number or rows etc) to the actual results obtained.  I don't test failure
> > cases (i.e. that queries that are wrong fail in the expectedly wrong way).
> >
> > For the FAQ: Alberto has gone a great job with:
> >
> > http://rdfstore.sourceforge.net/2002/06/24/rdf-query/query-use-cases.html
> >
> > 	Andy
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Libby Miller [mailto:Libby.Miller@bristol.ac.uk]
> > Sent: 15 January 2003 23:40
> > To: www-rdf-rules@w3.org
> > Cc: public-esw@w3.org
> > Subject: RDF query testcases?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> > We have some effort in SWAD-Europe [1] to write a document about RDF
> > query [see [2]]. Part of this will be FAQ-based - a start is here [3],
> > (and I'd be grateful for any FAQs or answers).
> >
> > The main reason for sending this message it because I've chatted to a
> > few people who feel that a collection of RDF query testcases would be a
> > useful thing to have, and I can put some effort into this - maybe as a
> > minimum, finding out what's already available, and maybe look into some
> > ways of enabling one query language implementation to use another's
> > testcases.
> >
> > So, would anyone out there like to share their test and their
> > experiences of writing them? I can infer that Jena and 4suite have
> > them; I think Mozilla has some too. I've got some here for Inkling:
> >
> > http://swordfish.rdfweb.org/rdfquery/tests/
> > http://swordfish.rdfweb.org/rdfquery/rdf/
> > http://swordfish.rdfweb.org/rdfquery/queries/
> >
> > Basically the test scripts read in
> > http://swordfish.rdfweb.org/rdfquery/rdf/query-results-manifest.rdf
> >
> > which specifies the RDF/XML file to pull in, the query to use and the
> > expected number of rows in the resulting table. So it's only a very
> > basic test of whether the query engine is functioning.
> >
> > Any more? Any thoughts?
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Libby
> >
> > [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/
> > [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/plan/workpackages/live/esw-wp-7.html
> > [3] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/rdf_ql_comparison_report/
> >
> >
> >
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Received on Thursday, 16 January 2003 11:13:22 UTC