1 README.tests 2 3 Instructions for standalone test regressions of libxml2 4 5 libxml2-tests-$version.tar.gz contains 3 standalone C programs as well 6 as a large amount of tests and results coming from libxml2 itself and 7 from W3C, NIST, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and James Clark. Each C 8 program has a different testing purpose: 9 10 runtest.c : runs libxml2 basic internal regression tests 11 runsuite.c: runs libxml2 against external regression tests 12 testapi.c : exercises the library public entry points 13 testchar.c: exercise the check of character ranges and UTF-8 validation 14 15 The command: 16 17 make check 18 or 19 make -f Makefile.tests check 20 21 should be sufficient on an Unix system to build and exercise the tests 22 for the version of the library installed on the system. Note however 23 that there isn't backward compatibility provided so if the installed 24 version is older than the testsuite one, failing to compile or run the tests 25 is likely. In any event this won't work with an installed libxml2 older 26 than 2.6.20. 27 28 Building on other platforms should be a matter of compiling the C files 29 like any other program using libxml2, running the test should be done 30 simply by launching the resulting executables. 31 32 Also note the availability of a "make valgrind" target which will run the 33 above tests under valgrind to check for memory errors (but this relies 34 on the availability of the valgrind command and take far more time to 35 complete). 36 37 Daniel Veillard 38 Mon May 7 2012 39 40
