3 Instructions for standalone test regressions of libxml2
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:
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
17 make -f Makefile.tests check
19 should be sufficient on an Unix system to build and exercise the tests
20 for the version of the library installed on the system. Note however
21 that there isn't backward compatibility provided so if the installed
22 version is older to the testsuite one, failing to compile or run the tests
23 is likely. In any event this won't work with an installed libxml2 older
25 Building on other platfroms should be a matter of compiling the C files
26 like any other program using libxml2, running the test should be done
27 simply by launching the resulting executables.