XSPARQL RDB2RDF testing

Hello all,

as per the telco I'm including my experience with running the test cases with XSPARQL.  First of the process I followed for executing the tests was quite similar to what is described in the wiki page [1].  From my experience, the process seems implementable.

In XSPARQL, with my basic bash scripting skills, I wrote the script at [2], which basically does:
 - for each directory in the test suite:
   - load the SQL script into the database (tested with PostgreSQL and MySQL) 
   - query the manifest.ttl graph to extract info regarding each test-case*
      - run each test-case using XSPARQL
      - compare the result of the XSPARQL query to the expected output using JENA's 'rdfcompare'

The output of the script is simply if the test-case was passed or failed (and if it's a negative test) or simply "NQUAD".  In the final step of comparing the RDF graphs, is where I came across the problems of comparing the "NQuads" since this, AFAIK is not supported by JENA.  I did not look into this issue any further.


* To query the manifest.ttl graph I used an XSPARQL query, probably not the most elegant way but can be replaced with another method.   
I tried to use as much as possible environment variables in the script so it should be easy to detach from XSPARQL, except for this method of reading the manifest files.


regards,
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Nuno Lopes

[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/wiki/Submitting_Test_Results#2._Run_the_engine_over_the_TS
[2] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/wiki/Submitting_Test_Results#BASH_script_to_compare_tests

Received on Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:39:40 UTC