First of all, I would recommend that everyone who uses the library invoke the library_test script (sh or bat) which uses bjam testing to test that the library passes all the tests on their platform. Boost can't test all variations of all platforms. For example, you might locally use MS VC with wchar implemented as short integers. So you should test any library with your local settings. To test your own serialization types, Look at the tests in the test directory of the serialization library and just add your tests for your own types. This will test your types with all the boost provide archives. This may well be all you need. xml_archives include "free" verification taht the </end> tag for each object is found where it should be - thus catching more load/save mismatches. Robert Ramey Arunava Saha wrote:

Dear experts,

I want to add bullet proof testing for the implementation of boost::serialization lib in my database. So, I want to add at least a test in my regression which should fail whenever there is an incorrect change in serialization, i.e. if someone adds a new data member to a class but forget to serialize properly, that test should fail.

So, please post your suggestions on how I should write that test. If you have any other idea about testing, please feel free to share.

Thanks in advance,

Arunava.

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