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How do you test visual programing languages? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by Eezyville@sh.itjust.works to c/programming@programming.dev

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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?

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[–] arthur@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I'm just trying to get a raise bro

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] frankenswine@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

visually 🤭🤣

[–] expr@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Visual... programming languages? Yikes.

[–] kehet@suppo.fi 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I tried MS Word a few times and decided that drag-and-drop UIs are not for me

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Tell me about it... I don't even use visual editors for charts, I use Mermaid.js in https://mermaid.live/

[–] wargreymon@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

lol I'm not quitting my job over this

[–] wargreymon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I am not contributing to closed source either, fuck billionaires