Testing strategy

[enkore]

Unit testing doesn't really cut it here, we'll need small (, but realistic) test cases with actual backups made with the original software that the importer should handle.

Ideas so far

• Just commit that stuff
• Add a .tar or similar (why not a Borg repo? Would allow to deduplicate the test cases! ;)
  • Aaand append-only makes it not-overly-terrible for version control.
  • Actually doesn't sound like such a bad idea.

[ThomasWaldmann]

Well, I shortly also thought about using a borg repo, but tar is just one file and I do not expect huge amount of data in there anyway. Also, it does not in any way depend on the borg version or need repo updates or ...

[ThomasWaldmann]

Alternatively, we could also use the backup software to dynamically create the test input data at testing time from some generic source files (which we keep in the repo / we have in a .tar).

But that would need us having rsnapshot, rsync, ... installed at test time. We will need that anyway though for any backup software not using a 1:1 copy of the sourcefiles (like rsync does).