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+Proof of concept CTL unit tests and CI System
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+This is intended to be a framework for unit testing ACES CTL code.
+
+### Organization
+
+This repo contains the following directories
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+`lib` - is a skeleton intended to contain code we've written and want to unit test
+
+`tests` - contains unit testing code
+
+`.github/workflows` - contains the code for the github action that performs the testing on push or PR to the repo
+
+### Test structure
+
+The `tests` directory contains a series of files with unit tests for function in correspond CTL files.  For example, `ACEStests.ACESlib.Utilities.ctl` contains unit tests for code in `ACESlib.Utilities.ctl`.  
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+The unit test files import the primary CTL being tested (e.g. `ACESlib.Utilities.ctl`) and `ACEStests.Common.ctl`.  
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+`ACEStests.Common.ctl` contains functions to enable testing such as functions to compare the actual result of a CTL function to the expected result.
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+`ACEStests.Execute.Tests` imports each file with the unit tests (e.g. `ACEStests.ACESlib.Utilities.ctl`) and then runs each test from the `main` function.
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+The testing is executed using `ctlrender` (this is a bit of a hack) by performing `ctlrender -ctl ACEStests.Execute.Tests.ctl /tmp/input.tif /tmp/output.tif` on the github runner.  The results are piped into a file and the file is inspected to see if the word `FAILED` exists anywhere inside.
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+If `FAILED` does not occur, then the action contines and will likely succeed.  If `FAILED` does occur, the action fails and the user is alerted the PR or commit fails the unit testing.
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