2.10. Program testing

After having installed a new program version, there may be a need for checking whether the analytical procedures applied by UncertRadio can be expected to produce evaluation results agreeing with documented results (reference values). Since version 2.3.03 this is possible as described now. An already longer existing (internal) test routine had been used to run the many projects, as given in section 3.3, in a batch processing mode for comparing the results with those documented earlier. This routine, previously with no access by the user, has been extended such that it can be invoked now under the Menu Options – QC batch test. It tests the analytical procedures for about 106 projects, which takes a time of about 40 seconds.

This test requires the reference data file BatListRef-v06.txt which is part of UncertRadio. The dialog invoked via Menu Options – QC batch test allows to select the reference data file and an output file showing the comparison of actually calculated and of reference values, project by project.

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After a run-time of about 40 seconds, an information is given about the number of projects for which a disagreement was found. The details of for these projects are given in the output file. This file normally is very short, as only those projects are reported for which deviations were found.