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Regression Testing

We have included the eaDocX Regression Testing application into eaDocX, in case you find it as useful as we do.

The application takes a set of eaDocX-generated word documents (these might be your own documents, or some that you create just for this kind of testing), copies them, re-generates the copy, and compares the copy to the original.

Ideally, they would be the same!

When to use this

We use this function as part of our testing of both new eaDocX releases, and when we change our EA environment:

  1. New EA releases
  2. New kinds of DBMS for storing our repositories
  3. For 32-bit to 64-bit compatibility

What might go wrong

We use Microsoft Word’s built-in ‘Compare’ function to check if the two documents are the same. But ‘Compare’ is not accurate – it shows differences in the documents where we can’t see any. And it also detects where eaDocX has updated a diagram as a ‘delete’ and an ‘insert’.

We do our best to remove the ‘false negative’ errors, but whist we do that, there is always a risk that we have accidentally removed real negative results.

So please treat the results carefully – they are a good indicator when sometime serious is going wrong, but no so good a detecting small formatting errors.