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Testing Strategies (Score:2)
Question: How do I test something graphical? For example, I have routines that are generating charts and graphs in PNG format.
Answer: One way would be to pre-generate "known good" charts and graphs, save them in a test_data directory and, run your routines and see if the output files are the same.
Question: How would I test a GUI interface for something?
Answer: I've struggled with this and for the most part, I don't think there are good, generic answers. One suggestion that I've heard is to have t
quick and dirty GUI testing (Score:2)
Then create a checksum (md5 is kind of small but I liked to use sha1). Then you just need to create a checksum on the test image and compare checksums, and then you could flag an image for human review.
There was some other super simple things I came up with as well for images and rough UI testing.
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