I have some code for which I have created graphical
tests .

These tests will produce a picture that looks right
when the code is working.

Now I want to (as lazily as possible) create unit
tests to prove the code and get it past the release
team watch dogs.

For each sample in the test I can get a form. Reduce
it to the smallest meaningful depth. So the next step
is to encode it into something that can be returned by
a method and compared with (what is hopefully) the
same form generated by the test.

What is the best way to do this?

I can anticipate this testing method coming up again.

It would be nice to automate the "encode it into a
method" part. At least to the point where I had
something that wrote the method (or most of it) into a
code holder or some text buffer I could copy.

For testing purposes it would be sufficient to test
the compressed forms (or even suitable hashes maybe).
Just as long as I could have confidence that the two
pictures matched.

I figure someone out there has probably tackled this
problem before so I am hoping to avoid reinventing the
wheel.

Yours in curiosity and service, --Jerome Peace




 
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