Test Suite

Liblas includes a test suite written in C++ that can be fairly easily run to ensure that the library is working properly.

make test

The test suite can be run in the liblas main directory with:

make test

If the liblas_test binary does not exist it may be necessary to do:

make liblas_test test

This should produce a brief report indicating the number of tests that failed, if any. A detailed report will be generated in liblas/Testing/Temporary/LastTest.log. Failure reports may look something like:

---> group: liblas::SpatialReference, test: test<6>
     problem: assertion failed
     failed assertion: `VLR count: expected `3` actual `4``

Tests failures diagnosis may require inspecting the test code in the liblas/test/unit directory. In the above case searching for “test<6>” in the file liblas/test/unit/lasspatialreference_test.cpp would be appropriate.

The tests can also be run directly in the liblas/test/unit directory by running the liblas/bin/liblas_test executable. In this case the report is written to stderr. Be careful to write it in the right directory or some tests will fail for reasons that are not clear.

Continuous Integration - TravisCI

The libLAS project uses Travis to perform automated builds and continuous integration.

Building libLAS and running unit tests using CMake on Unix

Users are encourage to run libLAS unit tests and submit test results to dedicated CDash - utility dashboard hosted by the http://cdash.org website:

The CDash_ is another tool libLAS uses to perform continuous integration during development process.

  • Configure libLAS core library with unit tests enabled

$ cmake ../main -DWITH_TESTS=ON
-- The C compiler identification is GNU
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Enable libLAS utilities to build - done
-- Enable libLAS unit tests to build - done
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/mloskot/dev/liblas/_hg/build

  • Inspect available targets

$ make help
The following are some of the valid targets for this Makefile:
... all (the default if no target is provided)
... clean
... depend
... Continuous
... ContinuousBuild
... ContinuousConfigure
... ContinuousCoverage
... ContinuousMemCheck
... ContinuousStart
... ContinuousSubmit
... ContinuousTest
... ContinuousUpdate
... Experimental
... ExperimentalBuild
... ExperimentalConfigure
... ExperimentalCoverage
... ExperimentalMemCheck
... ExperimentalStart
... ExperimentalSubmit
... ExperimentalTest
... ExperimentalUpdate
... Nightly
... NightlyBuild
... NightlyConfigure
... NightlyCoverage
... NightlyMemCheck
... NightlyMemoryCheck
... NightlyStart
... NightlySubmit
... NightlyTest
... NightlyUpdate
... edit_cache
... install
... install/local
... install/strip
... list_install_components
... rebuild_cache
... test
... las
... las_c
... las2las
... las2txt
... lasinfo
... txt2las
... liblas_test

  • Run Continuous target

mloskot@dog:~/dev/liblas/_hg/build$ make Continuous
   Site: dog
   Build name: Linux-c++
Create new tag: 20091025-0003 - Continuous
Updating the repository
   Updating the repository: /home/mloskot/dev/liblas/_hg/main
   Use HG repository type
   Old revision of repository is: aa303d670d1a
   New revision of repository is: 690df0a6df0b
   Gathering version information (one . per revision):
    .
   Found 1 updated files
Configure project
   Each . represents 1024 bytes of output
    . Size of output: 0K
Build project
   Each symbol represents 1024 bytes of output.
   '!' represents an error and '*' a warning.
    ......****.* Size of output: 11K
   0 Compiler errors
   7 Compiler warnings
Test project /home/mloskot/dev/liblas/_hg/build
    Start 1: liblas_test
1/1 Test #1: liblas_test ......................   Passed    0.02 sec

100% tests passed, 0 tests failed out of 1

Total Test time (real) =   0.03 sec
Performing coverage
 Cannot find any coverage files. Ignoring Coverage request.
Submit files (using http)
   Using HTTP submit method
   Drop site:http://my.cdash.org/submit.php?project=libLAS
   Uploaded: /home/mloskot/dev/liblas/_hg/build/Testing/20091025-0003/Build.xml
   Uploaded: /home/mloskot/dev/liblas/_hg/build/Testing/20091025-0003/Configure.xml
   Uploaded: /home/mloskot/dev/liblas/_hg/build/Testing/20091025-0003/Test.xml
   Uploaded: /home/mloskot/dev/liblas/_hg/build/Testing/20091025-0003/Update.xml
   Submission successful
Built target Continuous

Ammending and Extending the Test Suite

The tests for the test suite are implemented as a set of C++ files in the liblas/test/unit directory. New tests for existing classes can be added based on the existing examples. New files can be introduced for additional classes or categories of testing, but the source filename(s) will also need to be added in liblas/test/unit/CMakeLists.txt.