Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: testkraut
Version: 0.0~pre2
Summary: test and evaluate heterogeneous data processing pipelines
Home-page: https://github.com/neurodebian/testkraut
Author: Michael Hanke and the testkraut developers
Author-email: michael.hanke@gmail.com
License: MIT License
Download-URL: https://github.com/neurodebian/testkraut/tags
Description: testkraut -- hopefully not yet another software testing framework
        =================================================================
        
          *Note: testkraut is still in its infancy -- some of what is written here
          could still be an anticipation of the near future.*
        
        Anyway, this is nevertheless a framework for software testing. That being said,
        testkraut tries to minimize the overlap with the scopes of unit testing,
        regression testing, and continuous integration testing. Instead, it aims to
        complement these kinds of testing, and is able to re-use them, or can be
        integrated with them.
        
        In a nutshell testkraut helps to facilitate statistical analysis of test
        results. In particular, it focuses on two main scenarios:
        
        1. Comparing results of a single (test) implementation across different
           or changing computational environments (think: different operating systems,
           different hardware, or the same machine before an after a software upgrade).
        
        2. Comparing results of different (test) implementations generating similar
           output from identical input (think: performance of various signal detection
           algorithms).
        
        While such things can be done using other available tools as well, testkraut
        aims to provide a lightweight (hence portable), yet comprehensive description
        of a test run. Such a description allows for decoupling test result generation
        and analysis -- opening up the opportunity to "crowd-source" software testing
        efforts, and aggregate results beyond the scope of a single project, lab,
        company, or site.
        
        More documentation:
          https://testkraut.readthedocs.org
        
        Build status:
          http://travis-ci.org/neurodebian/testkraut
        
        
        Prototypes of a testkraut user
        ------------------------------
        
        The concerned scientist
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        
        This scientist came up with a sophisticated data analysis pipeline, consisting
        of many pieces of software from different vendors. It appears to work correctly
        (for now). But this scientist is afraid to upgrade any software on the machine,
        because it might break the pipeline. Rigorous tests would have helped, but
        "there was no time". testkraut can help to (semi-automatically) assess the
        longitudinal stability of analysis results.
        
        The thoughtful software developer
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        
        For any individual software developer or project it is almost impossible to
        confirm proper functioning of their software on all possible computing
        environments. testkraut can help generate informative performance reports that
        can be send back to a developer and offer a more comprehensive assessment
        of cross-platform performance.
        
        The careful "downstream"
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        
        A packager for a software distribution needs to apply a patch to some software
        to improve its integration into the distribution environment. Of course, such a
        patch should not have a negative impact on the behavior of the software.
        testkraut can help to make a comparative assessment to alert the packager if
        something starts to behave in unexpected ways.
        
        Wanna help?
        -----------
        
        If you think it would be worthwhile to contribute to this project your
        input would be highly appreciated. Please report issues, send feature-requests,
        and pull-request without hesitation!
        
        Why this name?
        --------------
        
        The original aim for this project was to achieve "crowd-sourcing" of software
        testing efforts. "kraut" is obviously almost a semi-homonym of "crowd", while
        at the same time indicating that this software spent its infancy at the
        Institute of Psychology Magdeburg, Germany.
        
        License
        -------
        
        All code is licensed under the terms of the MIT license, or some equally liberal
        alternative license. Please see the COPYING file in the source distribution for
        more detailed information.
        
Platform: OS Independent
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering
Provides: testkraut
