[gt-users] Unit tests: test output to file.

[Sascha Steinbiss]

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On 08/22/2009 02:34 PM, Giorgio Gonnella wrote:
> Hi,

Hey Giorgio,

> In the unit test I would like to test that the information is written
> as it should be and - as I also have a parser method - that showing
> followed by parsing returns an equivalent to the original object. How
> do you test such cases? Is it allowed to print to a file during tests
> and delete it afterwards? And if yes, where should the file be
> located?

Yes, we (I do, to be exact ;)) also create temporary input files in test
cases (see unit test in core/sequence_buffer.c for an example). You can
use gt_xtmpfp() from the fa module to create temporary files and
gt_xremove from the xansi module to delete them.

> Giorgio

Sascha

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