Re: HWPF-Development

[Nick Burch <ni...@torchbox.com>]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Rainer Schwarze wrote:
> I already wondered a bit how a good automated test case could be done
> when dealing with Word files (surely applies to Excel, Powerpoint
> too). Reading something from a file is probably easily checked. But
> writing it properly surely needs a human who's checking whether Word
> crashes or not.
> Are there already some solutions to automatically test "file writes"
> for correctness in the H??F-projects?

Not really. You kinda just have to test as many of the records as you can 
automatically, and then periodically test the whole output yourself.

Another (sometimes hard) option is to apply a bunch of opperations, and 
try to get from one known-good file to another

Nick

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