labscript-suite-temp / labscript

The labscript Python library provides a translation from simple Python code to complex hardware instructions. The library is used to construct a "connection table" containing information about what hardware is being used and how it is interconnected. Devices described in this connection table can then have their outputs set by using a range of functions, including arbitrary ramps.
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Test suite for labscript #41

Open philipstarkey opened 7 years ago

philipstarkey commented 7 years ago

Original report (archived issue) by Philip Starkey (Bitbucket: pstarkey, GitHub: pstarkey).


Changes to labscript that contain unexpected bugs, risk breaking people's experiments. Worse, a mistake could adversely affect the ability to obtain scientific results, or even invalidate publications. Corner cases are often hard to catch during testing, and may persist for years. To combat this, we should implement a test suite.

I suggest that we expose the runviewer Shot class in an API and use the traces (that are reverse engineered from the hardware instructions stored in the hdf5 file) to verify that outputs still maintain the same behaviour after labscript changes.

We should also:

philipstarkey commented 7 years ago

Original comment by Philip Starkey (Bitbucket: pstarkey, GitHub: pstarkey).