Stress-tests

[saxbophone]

Write some more comprehensive stress-tests which check that the encoder and decoder functions successfully handle many different unusual output bases, including with partial input to check that padding works successfully across any output base.

[saxbophone]

I wrote a quick stress-test right now:

import random

from basest.core import best_ratio, encode_raw, decode_raw

# stress test of Basest

# input bases in range 3..256
for input_base in range(3, 256 + 1):
    # output bases in range 2..256
    for output_base in range(2, 256 + 1):
        # only continue if output base is not larger than input base
        if not (output_base > input_base):
            # get an encoding ratio to use
            _, ratio = best_ratio(input_base, [output_base], range(1, 10 + 1))
            # explore the whole input window
            for input_window in range(1, ratio[0] + 1):
                # generate some random data, half as many items as the input ratio
                input_data = [random.randint(0, input_base - 1) for _ in range(input_window)]
                # encode the data
                encoded_data = encode_raw(
                    input_base, output_base,
                    ratio[0], ratio[1],
                    input_data
                )
                # decode the data
                decoded_data = decode_raw(
                    output_base, input_base,
                    ratio[1], ratio[0],
                    encoded_data
                )
                # check what we got back is the same as the original
                assert decoded_data == input_data
                # display some stuff
                print(input_data, encoded_data)

[saxbophone]

I haven't found a nice way of integrating this (and any future) stress-tests into the project yet, so I will not block the public release on this. I will put the test code file in the project tree on its own, pending complete integration into the build process.

[saxbophone]

Or maybe I can do this simply by putting the stress-test code into a file in the project root and adding commands to the Makefile to run that as the stress-test..?