Does a test suite exist?

[FrankDMartinez]

Hi, I was wondering if a test suite exists to verify program performance accuracy.

Thanks.

[michaeldickens]

There does not. I'll add it to my list of to dos. Did you have any particular sorts of tests in mind?

[FrankDMartinez]

Thanks for the thought. Basically, what springs to Mind is a sequence of test keyboard which, based on a "pen-and-paper" calculation of the algorithm, has a known fitness score, for example. This way, if I were to attempt a tweak and found, "Oops the fitness is now A when it is used to be B," I can make sure I did not break anything.

[michaeldickens]

That could be useful, although it would have to be changed every time the fitness variables change. I can't think of an easy way to do that off the top of my head.

On 2/12/13 8:33 AM, FrankDMartinez wrote:

Thanks for the thought. Basically, what springs to Mind is a sequence of test keyboard which, based on a "pen-and-paper" calculation of the algorithm, has a known fitness score, for example. This way, if I were to attempt a tweak and found, "Oops the fitness is now A when it is used to be B," I can make sure I did not break anything.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/MTGandP/Typing/issues/12#issuecomment-13441340.

[FrankDMartinez]

One system I have set up for another project utilizes "create" and "compare" setting. The "create" setting simply takes in test case information, produces output, and stores it in a specifically named file. The "compare" setting does the same except, instead of storing it in the specifically named file, it results in the output dumping to a temporary file which is then 'cmp'-ed with the named file. [Note: the setup uses a wrapper script to handle all of this, as opposed to having the testing built into the application.]

To illustrate "create" mode, calling "create-test input-file-name":

./application [whatever settings are required] input-file-name > input-file-name.out

To illustrate "compare" mode, calling "compare-1-test input-file-name":

rm temp-file
./application [same settings as require for "create" mode] input-file-name > temp-file
cmp input-file-name.out temp-file
if [$? -gt 0]; then
    <launch Your favorite diff-ing program to show where the changes are> input-file-name.out temp-file
fi

To handle multiple test files, another wrapper script, "compare-tests", simply invokes:

compare-1-test a
compare-1-test b
compare-1-test c
compare-1-test d
...

[michaeldickens]

Certainly don't feel like you have to, but if you want to set up some tests to demonstrate that with the Typing program, I'd like to see it.

On 2/12/13 9:46 AM, FrankDMartinez wrote:

One system I have set up for another project utilizes "create" and "compare" setting. The "create" setting simply takes in test case information, produces output, and stores it in a specifically named file. The "compare" setting does the same except, instead of storing it in the specifically named file, it results in the output dumping to a temporary file which is then 'cmp'-ed with the named file. [Note: the setup uses a wrapper script to handle all of this, as opposed to having the testing built into the application.]

To illustrate "create" mode, calling "create-test input-file-name": ./application [whatever settings are required] input-file-name > input-file-name.out

To illustrate "compare" mode, calling "compare-1-test input-file-name": rm temp-file ./application [same settings as require for "create" mode] input-file-name > temp-file cmp input-file-name.out temp-file if [$? -gt 0]; then input-file-name.out temp-file fi

To handle multiple test files, another wrapper script, "compare-tests", simple invokes: compare-1-test a compare-1-test b compare-1-test c compare-1-test d ...

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/MTGandP/Typing/issues/12#issuecomment-13445421.

[FrankDMartinez]

If You could point Me in the direction of the an english version of the fitness calculation algorithm(s), I will see what I can do.

[michaeldickens]

It's fairly simple. Every digraph has an associated number that indicates the relative frequency of the digraph. calcFitness() calls a series of functions to calculate the fitness and then multiplies by the digraph's relative frequency. Each individual function used by calcFitness() is described in the Fitness file.