Events comparison in regression tests

posted by Kai Nagel on February 13, 2020

There are many tests that at some point run

EventsFileComparator.compare( filename1, filename2 )

I have now, somewhat as an experiment, added coordinates into the person arrival events. This will break the strict events comparison.

I have therefore made the events comparison somewhat more flexible; you can now write

new EventsFileComparator()
    .setIgnoringCoordinates(true)
    .runComparison(filename1, filename2)

This will then ignore the coordinates in the comparison, and thus make the test pass again (if nothing else is broken).

Since we are planning to play around a bit more with this (in the context of visualization), I would recommend to use this switch rather than replacing the reference events files.