> On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 10:50 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:


>> Run diff(1) and other file comparison tools.
>> Stuff the dump into an XML library that implements XPath.
>> Keep the baselines for regression testing *out* of the image.
>> Give me something that _can't_ crawl across the screen spinning
>> and croaking while my checking code is trying to look at it.
>> And so on.

[Colin:]

> Again, this seems very awkward. Doing textual comparisons will be very 
> fragile.

Yes, but what are the alternatives?  Do you have a good "object-diff" 
that could be used directly on the object-graph?

Marcel


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