Re: [boost] How do folks test serialization code?

Ryo IGARASHI wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Robert Ramey wrote:

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I have some trivial tests that round trip to a stringstream using boost::archive::text_i/oarchive, but of course that only verifies that platform-specific serialization works. So what do folks do - generate text archives on different platforms, deserialize and compare?

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How does Boost.Serialization itself verify this?

It doesn't.

It also doesn't explicitly test that version x can read all archives created with versions < x.

How about the following?

1. When new version of boost is released, add test archive file created by the version in the test/1.xx.x directory (in svn/git repo). 2. Try to test against all the previous archive when the full test run?

This way, we can test the inter-version compatibility.

If you want to test inter-platform, the test compares the created archive to the archive contained in the repogitory. (I am assuming that text archive is platform-independent.)

I think that this will be rather easily implementable and better than nothing tested.

Wow - great idea! Thanks for implementing this. Robert Ramey

Best regards,