So how do you guys test visual programming languages? These languages include Labview, Simulink, Snaplogic, Slang, etc. I ask because I’m working on improving the testing suite we use at my job for Snaplogic. The way we currently lest is we have a suite of pipelines that have certain snaps and we just run those pipelines and look for errors in a testing environment every release.
What I’m really trying to figure out is how to run Functional Tests (unit, integration, system) and Non-Functional Tests (security, performance). In a language such as Python this can be straight forward but in a visual language or a service offered by another company then it is a bit more difficult.
I am thinking of creating a custom test suite using the modules used in our pipelines and using Python to generate JSON and SQL data. Does anyone do something similar?
I think the public that uses those tools usually don’t care about standard practices (yet?).
So congrats, you are on the forefront I guess.
I’m just trying to get a raise bro
Visual… programming languages? Yikes.
visually 🤭🤣
I tried MS Word a few times and decided that drag-and-drop UIs are not for me
Tell me about it… I don’t even use visual editors for charts, I use Mermaid.js in https://mermaid.live/
Simulink has a concept called Test Harnesses which are models that isolate individual blocks for testing. The tests themselves are then driven programmatically from MATLAB
a service offered by another company then it is a bit more difficult.
Quit this job or ask for source code from the company, releasing a programming language closed-source is just terrible.
lol I’m not quitting my job over this
I am not contributing to closed source either, fuck billionaires