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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Logg wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:42:46AM +0100, Kristian Oelgaard wrote:
>> Shouldn't we have both 'tensor' and 'quadrature' references like we
>> had in the old FFC?  Also, before these references can be trusted,
>> we need to check that the new code will give the same result as
>> simple_verify_tensors in the old FFC.
>>
>> Kristian
> 
> I've been thinking about this and I think we can actually have just
> one set of references for the demos. Then the representation will be
> the one chosen by _auto_select_representation. That will simplify a
> great deal.
> 
> But the new regression test will also support having a bunch of forms
> to test which are not necessarily demos. We can have a file named
> forms.py which contains a bunch of extra forms to test and in those we
> can select both representations. This will lead to generation of two
> different references, like FooTensor.h and FooQuadrature.h and all
> these references can be thrown into the same directory.
>

Why bother then with regression tests for the demos? Or just add all the
demos to the test forms.

> This will be simpler than having to iterate over different
> representations as part of the testing framework. Now we can just
> iterate over a bunch of form files.
> 

Isn't iterating over different representations easy? Just a change in
the flag.

Garth

> And yes, we need to check against the old simple_verify_tensors. I'll
> be working on that.
> 
> --
> Anders
> 
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