[Bioperl-l] tests

[Peter Schattner]

Elia Stupka wrote:

> I was wondering if we should/could somehow prevent bptutorial and other
> scripts not to fall out of our rigorous testing philosophy, by somehow
> including them in the tests.

I think that this is an excellent idea.  I check that bptutorial.pl is
working (at least under Linux) before each major release, but that does not
appear to be sufficient.

> Any clever ideas as to how we should go about
> testing scripts, besides checking if they compile and trying to execute
> them within a .t file?

No clever ideas, but checking if they compile and trying to execute them
within a .t file seems like a sensible approach.

Peter