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