Boost.MultiArray: Test Descriptions

The following is a description of the test cases that are included with Boost.Multi_Array (B.M).

Terminology

The following list is to clarify the use of terms in the following descriptions:

• B.M - abbreviation for Boost.MultiArray.
• primary components - refers to boost::multi_array, boost::const_multi_array_ref, and boost::multi_array_ref.
• array types - refers to all the primary components, plus for each primary component "array", the types array::const_subarray, array::subarray, array::const_array_view, and array::array_view

Acceptance Tests

The following tests exercise various features of Boost.Multi_Array to ensure proper operation at run time.

| Program | Description | | libs/multi_array/test/constructors.cpp | Exercises all of the constructors for B.M primary components. | | libs/multi_array/test/access.cpp | Tests operator[] and operator() on all B.M array types. | | libs/multi_array/test/compare.cpp | Tests all comparison operators for the B.M primary components. | | libs/multi_array/test/iterators.cpp | Test all iterator traversal and access functionality for all B.M array types. | | libs/multi_array/test/slice.cpp | Test all variations of subview generation for all B.M array types. | | libs/multi_array/test/assign.cpp | Tests out operator=() on the various B.M array types. | | libs/multi_array/test/assign_to_array.cpp | Ensure that a multi_array can be constructed from any other array type. | | libs/multi_array/test/index_bases.cpp | Test re-indexing functionality for the B.M primary components. | | libs/multi_array/test/storage_order_convert.cpp | Test out conversions among the storage orders data types. | | libs/multi_array/test/storage_order.cpp | Test variations on storage_order for the B.M primary components. | | libs/multi_array/test/reshape.cpp | Test re-shaping functionality for the B.M primary components. | | libs/multi_array/test/range1.cpp | Test the various syntaxes for specifying index ranges using array::index_range. | | libs/multi_array/test/idxgen1.cpp | Test the array::index_gen objects. | | libs/multi_array/test/stl_interaction.cpp | Test interaction between array types and STL containers. | | libs/multi_array/test/resize.cpp | Test the multi_array class' resizing functionality. | | libs/multi_array/test/concept_checks.cpp | Ensure that all the array types meet the defined Concepts. | | libs/multi_array/test/assert.cpp | Ensure that uses of BOOST_ASSERT within the library can be customized by library users. | | libs/multi_array/test/allocators.cpp | Test support for custom allocators. | | libs/multi_array/test/generative_tests.hpp | A test harness used to simplify testing operations upon all array types. Used by slice.cpp, iterators.cpp, and access.cpp. |

Compile-Fail Tests

The following tests check to make sure that various constructs not accepted by the library fail to compile. Each test checks only one fault in order to more easily ensure the cause of the compilation failure.

| Program | Description | | libs/multi_array/test/fail_cbracket.cpp
libs/multi_array/test/fail_ref_cbracket.cpp | operator[] on a const array must not modify elements. | | libs/multi_array/test/fail_cdata.cpp
libs/multi_array/test/fail_ref_cdata.cpp | array::data() const must return a pointer to const data. | | libs/multi_array/test/fail_citerator.cpp
libs/multi_array/test/fail_ref_citerator.cpp | const_iterator must not be convertible to iterator. | | libs/multi_array/test/fail_cparen.cpp
libs/multi_array/test/fail_ref_cparen.cpp | operator() on a const array must not modify elements. | | libs/multi_array/test/fail_criterator.cpp
libs/multi_array/test/fail_ref_criterator.cpp | const_reverse_iterator must not be convertible to reverse_iterator. | | libs/multi_array/test/fail_csubarray.cpp
libs/multi_array/test/fail_ref_csubarray.cpp | const_subarray must not be convertible to subarray. | | libs/multi_array/test/fail_csubarray2.cpp
libs/multi_array/test/fail_ref_csubarray2.cpp | array::operator[] const must not be convertible to subarray. | | libs/multi_array/test/fail_csubarray3.cpp
libs/multi_array/test/fail_ref_csubarray3.cpp | const_subarray into an array must not modify elements. | | libs/multi_array/test/fail_cview.cpp
libs/multi_array/test/fail_ref_cview.cpp | const_array_view of an array must not modify elements. | | libs/multi_array/test/fail_cview2.cpp
libs/multi_array/test/fail_ref_cview2.cpp | array::operator[] const must not be convertible to array_view. | | libs/multi_array/test/fail_cview3.cpp
libs/multi_array/test/fail_ref_cview3.cpp | const_array_view of an array must not modify elements. |

| Copyright © 2001 | Ronald Garcia, Indiana University ([email protected])
Jeremy Siek, Indiana University ([email protected])
Andrew Lumsdaine, Indiana University ([email protected]) |

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Ronald GarciaLast modified: Wed Oct 31 19:46:44 EST 2001