Areca Backup - Testing

Build Areca before running the following command lines to try out to detect major bugs.

Build-in tests

These tests come from Areca Backup v7.5.

CompareFiles

CompareFiles.java

$ java -cp lib/areca.jar com.application.areca.tests.CompareFiles <filename1> <filename2> <outfile>

Parameters:

filename1 (required) First file to compare..
filename2 (required) Second file to compare.
outfile (required) Comparison results, where the values of the columns correspond to the order of the files as arguments. The output ends with both columns with EOF.

Example:

$ java -cp lib/areca.jar com.application.areca.tests.CompareFiles README.md AUTHORS outfile.txt

ComputeHash

ComputeHash.java

$ java -cp lib/areca.jar com.application.areca.tests.ComputeHash <filename1> [filename2] ... [filename#]

Parameters:

A list of filenames (at least 1 filename).

Example:

$ java -cp lib/areca.jar com.application.areca.tests.ComputeHash README.md AUTHORS

CreateData

CreateData.java

Utility class.

DecodeBase64

DecodeBase64.java

$ java -cp lib/areca.jar:lib/commons-codec-1.4.jar com.application.areca.tests.DecodeBase64 <base64>

Parameters:

base64 (required) . String to encode.

Example:

$ java -cp lib/areca.jar:lib/commons-codec-1.4.jar com.application.areca.tests.DecodeBase64 base64

TargetHandler

TargetHandler.java

It is an interface, so nothing to test.

Test

E2E

$ java -cp lib/areca.jar com.application.areca.tests.Test <workspace_path>

Parameters:

workspace_path (required) An Areca workspace.

Example:

$ java -cp lib/areca.jar com.application.areca.tests.Test ~/$USER/.areca/workspace (Linux)
> java -cp lib/areca.jar com.application.areca.tests.Test %HOMEPATH%/.areca/workspace (Windows)

TestCopy

TestCopy.java

$ java -cp lib/areca.jar com.application.areca.tests.TestCopy <source_file> <destiny_file>

Parameters:

sourceParentDirectory Source folder.
targetParentDirectory Destiny folder.

Example:

$ java -cp lib/areca.jar com.application.areca.tests.TestCopy release building/tests

TestPerfs

TestPerfs.java

$ java -cp lib/areca.jar com.application.areca.tests.TestPerfs <workspace_path>

Parameters:

workspace_path (required) An Areca workspace.

Example:

$ java -cp lib/areca.jar com.application.areca.tests.TestPerfs ~/$USER/.areca/workspace (Linux)
> java -cp lib/areca.jar com.application.areca.tests.TestPerfs %HOMEPATH%/.areca/workspace (Windows)

WorkspaceProcessor

WorkspaceProcessor.java

Utility class.