Testing Xapian¶
Xapian contains three types of code, which require different kinds of tests.
The C++ libraries (xapian-core
and xapian-letor
) have a common
test harness, and have extensive test suites written in C++. Omega,
our pre-packaged web search app, has its own tests. Finally, the
language bindings have “smoke tests” to check some basic
functionality, and may have further tests for language-specific code,
such as iterators (which generally work differently in language
bindings than they do in C++, to make them more familiar to existing
users of that programming language).
Generally, tests for any part of Xapian can be run using make check
.