Hey, did Paul get CVS access?
Paul, were you able to compile the branch with VC++ 2005 Express? I
did put some tweaks in there to get everything to compile with no
warnings on the Express edition.
I haven't put a copy of VS.NET 2003 Academic Edition in the mail for
you yet, but its coming...
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I've been using FitNesse at work. <http://www.fitnesse.org> Fitnesse
captures acceptance tests as tables on wiki page. The information in
the table is used to load some code and execute it against the data in
the table. Matching expectations are colored green in the table and
mismatched expectations are colored red.
Even though the fractint code base is difficult to unit test, you
could easily make a regression suite using FitNesse so that you can
identify when changes to fractint cause it to render parameter sets
differently.
You generate a reference image using a known good implementation and
store that reference image in subversion, along with the fitnesse
wiki. Then you create a page in the fitnesse wiki that contains
information like: parameter file, parameter set name, and matching?
(true/false). Add a bunch of rows into a table for those three items
and find the reference image based on the parameter file and parameter
set name and you're good to go.
This would let you know when fractint can't render parameter sets the
same between releases.
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