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by Mark Van Peteghem-2
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I'm a firm proponent of automated tests, so I can only agree. Perhaps
you could have a wavefile for every example (rendered with one version
of CSound), and write automated tests that check whether it is almost
the same for the double and float versions, and for different values of
kr and sr. Although some opcodes give drastic differences by design.
Jacob Joaquin wrote:
> Not sure if this has already been done or not. Perhaps we should consider
> writing test-cases for each example in the manual, and use a script to run
> all the tests prior to the release of a new version of Csound. This would
> help smooth things out for beginners, as they are less likely to run into
> buggy examples. This might even help catch bigs introduced into Csound
> during the development process.
>
> I might have time to do this myself sometime in the next few months. If
> anyone is interested in starting a dialog about how to tackle this, no
> better time than the present.
>
> Best,
> Jake
>
>
>
> jpff-2 wrote:
>
>>> Dear all,
>>> i'm trying all the examples of the manual. Can be useful for You if i
>>> will
>>> make a report (as possible for me) of not working examples? I would like
>>> to
>>> be helpful for You, but i have not ability! I'm not a programmer, i'm not
>>> an
>>> expert in csound ... I have only some free time.
>>> If i can be useful let me know, if not, don't worry, i'll be always here
>>> to
>>> ask You for some help.
>>>
>>>
>> Sure; all examples worked at one time byut things drift. Knowing of ANY
>> problems in the manual or the system is good; which is not a promise to
>> fix everything.... but we do try to fix stuff whenever it turns up.
>>
>> ==John ff
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Send bugs reports to this list.
>> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@... with body "unsubscribe
>> csound"
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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Mark
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you could have a wavefile for every example (rendered with one version
of CSound), and write automated tests that check whether it is almost
the same for the double and float versions, and for different values of
kr and sr. Although some opcodes give drastic differences by design.
Jacob Joaquin wrote:
> Not sure if this has already been done or not. Perhaps we should consider
> writing test-cases for each example in the manual, and use a script to run
> all the tests prior to the release of a new version of Csound. This would
> help smooth things out for beginners, as they are less likely to run into
> buggy examples. This might even help catch bigs introduced into Csound
> during the development process.
>
> I might have time to do this myself sometime in the next few months. If
> anyone is interested in starting a dialog about how to tackle this, no
> better time than the present.
>
> Best,
> Jake
>
>
>
> jpff-2 wrote:
>
>>> Dear all,
>>> i'm trying all the examples of the manual. Can be useful for You if i
>>> will
>>> make a report (as possible for me) of not working examples? I would like
>>> to
>>> be helpful for You, but i have not ability! I'm not a programmer, i'm not
>>> an
>>> expert in csound ... I have only some free time.
>>> If i can be useful let me know, if not, don't worry, i'll be always here
>>> to
>>> ask You for some help.
>>>
>>>
>> Sure; all examples worked at one time byut things drift. Knowing of ANY
>> problems in the manual or the system is good; which is not a promise to
>> fix everything.... but we do try to fix stuff whenever it turns up.
>>
>> ==John ff
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Send bugs reports to this list.
>> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@... with body "unsubscribe
>> csound"
>>
>>
>>
>
>
--
Mark
_________________________________________
When you get lemons, you make lemonade.
When you get hardware, you make software.
Send bugs reports to this list.
To unsubscribe, send email sympa@... with body "unsubscribe csound"
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