Test files are used to check that GAP produces correct results in
certain computations. A selection of test files for the library can be
found in the tst directory of the GAP distribution.
ReadTest( name-file ) O
reads a test file. A test file starts with a line
gap> START_TEST("arbitrary identifier string");
(Note that the gap> prompt is part of the line!)
It continues by lines of GAP input and corresponding output.
The input lines again start with the gap> prompt (or the > prompt if
commands exceed one line). The output is exactly as would result from typing
in the input interactively to a GAP session
(on a screen with 80 characters per line).
The test file stops with a line
gap> STOP_TEST( "filename", 10000 );
Here the string "filename" should give the name of the test file. The
number is a proportionality factor that is used to output a ``GAPstone''
speed ranking after the file has been completely processed. For the files
provided with the distribution this scaling is roughly equalized to yield
the same numbers as produced by combinat.tst.
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