Here are some design notes for the regression test feature of tbwiki:

This is basically all done - see Processor RegressionCheck

done [edit section]

Desired Features [edit section]

• process a set of tests automatically, and report any regressions
• save an existing HTML for a wiki page as a "good" reference for the output for particular markup
• have specific unit tests, with markup, and expected html
  • process those in a batch

• have a collection of pages with HTML 'expected result' files
• this feature overlaps with caching
  • generation of html file
  • checking status of html file

Design of regression test feature [edit section]

• run the regression test inside a Processor

• forms needed:
  • show list of pages and their status:
    • green = tbwiki current engine is producing expected output
    • red = tbwiki current engine is not producing expected output
    • orange = there is not expected output file
  • allow saving a page's current output as the expected output
    • should convert to green
• create a directory:
  • expected_html
• need compare_with_expected_output function
• can replace expected_output pages with a link

Some other notes [edit section]

• may need to run with some variables different
  • need to run with different user?, cookies?, theme?

done [edit section]

• ProcessorRegressionCheck.py
  • by default, show list of all pages, with status of each page
  • show a link for each page, to update the expected output