Test data for video ?

[Maik Qualmann]

The large binary files are a problem and would further increase digiKam's 
source archive. The KDE admins also reject such files in the git history.

Maik

Am Montag, 12. September 2022, 20:32:24 CEST schrieb Steven Robbins:
> Hello,
> 
> This is a developer topic, but I am cross-posting to -users mainly because
> that's the only place I see very much non-automated email ... Please trim
> the follow-up if I've surmised wrongly.
> 
> This email is to ask about including video files into the source tree to
> support unit testing.  I have found a handful of image files -- usually in
> core/tests/${app}/data.  I presume that the data is to support testing
> ${app} only.
> 
> I haven't found any video files in the tree.  So question #1 would be: would
> video data be accepted in support of a test?  At the moment, I'm looking at
> example files from https://file-examples.com -- would those be OK?  Should
> I be looking for shorter files?  Is there an upper bound on file size?
> 
> I had previously been asking about FFMPEG-5 support and even mentioned I
> would work on it.  I have very limited time to work on hobby projects so
> you've not seen much from me but  I haven't gone away completely.  :-)
> 
> I have decided to write unit tests against qtav because (a) I believe unit
> tests are a good thing; and (b) I have debugged one of the interactive apps
> to the point where it fails but I don't understand enough (yet) to work out
> where the failure lies -- so I figured if I write unit tests that exercise
> deeper and deeper layers of the code, I'd eventually write one that fails. 
> And start fixing there.
> 
> Now for question #2: I would be looking to use the same sample data in
> multiple tests, so  the core/tests/${app}/data strategy is not optimal. 
> Would it be acceptable to put them in, say, core/tests/data ?  Do you have
> some conventions or guidelines for data folder organization?
> 
> Thank you!
> -Steve