test-suite

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Test suites help interoperability and completeness of microformats parsing. This page documents the effort to produce test cases for microformats2 and parsing patterns, so that you can verify the operations of your parser.

Goals of Test Suite Project

There's no better way for parser writers to verify the correctness and completeness of their code.

We need to provide a suite to:

• Verify the correctness of microformats2-parsing
• Indicate the completeness of a parser implementation
• Ensure that global patterns like abbr-design-pattern and value-class-pattern are implemented accurately
• Provide a base set of tests for implementations to build their automated test scripts
• Encourage implementations to put their tests into this combined effort, rather than working alone

Test Project

On github:

• https://github.com/microformats/tests

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about microformats tests / test suites.

• How do we create a test suite which can be used for implementations in any langage?
  • Define the test suites using the test-fixture microformat (and/or it’s updated mf2 version) so that language-specific test suites can be derived from a single source.
• Should we test the whole parser output against a JSON representation of the original data, or compare individual parsed properties?
  • Paraphrased from this issue on github
  • Specifically the difficulty is dates/times, where a single datetime can be specified in many different ways, and only sometimes represented as an object native to the language the parser is working in. Many microformats / HTML5 <time> dates/times/durations are not represented in any native language objects (e.g. month-day). See HTML5 Time element proposals for more variants/details.
• …

see also

• test-fixture
• microformats2
• microformats2-parsing

previously

Previous microformats1 test suites: test-suite-2009