Semi-Markov Library FAQ¶

Testing¶

There are three levels of testing.

Build Tests Regular testing is done on Linux and Mac with gcc 4.7, gcc 4.8, clang 3.3, and clang 3.4. There is a Jenkins instance locally that runs builds inside of Docker containers. This handles builds on Ubuntu and Fedora. Mac builds are tested by hand.

System-level Tests There are currently just a few of these, namely a set of SIR models whose theoretical properties are known, contained in examples/sir_mixed.cpp. We verify the percentage of runs which become epidemic.
Unit Tests The distributions (exponential, Weibull, and others) have a unit test called disttest, built from the test directory. This samples the distributions and compares Kolmogorov-Smirnov estimators of those samples with theoretical results.

The code follows the Boost library guidelines for compatibility, but Boost isn’t a style guide, so it follows the Google C++ Style Guide.