[aprssig] APRS test suite?

[Weston Bustraan]

That would just tell you whether your parser crashes or not; not whether
the data was parsed and interpreted correctly. It would certainly be
helpful to have more "official" examples. I know, for example, that the
spec for area objects was a bit vague, at first. I've tested a simple
square area object in several APRS clients and found that, while every one
parsed the packet without crashing, the actual result was drastically
different.

For my app, I built my own test suite using a variety of inputs. I started
with the few examples described in the APRS101 spec. From there, I tried to
introduce edge cases and common cases. Whenever I was not sure what the
expected interpretation was supposed to be, I used popular clients like
aprs.fi or Direwolf as a reference.

- Wes, W8WJB

On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 3:06 PM Lynn W Deffenbaugh (Mr) <KJ4ERJ at arrl.net>
wrote:

> Just connect yourself to a planetary full feed on port 10152 of your
> favorite APRS-IS server and see how your parser handles it.
>
> Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
>
> On 8/22/2021 2:18 PM, Matthew Adair wrote:
>
> Hi folks -
> Out of curiosity, is there an "official" suite of APRS packets that can be
> used for testing the parsing of packets? I'm thinking something along the
> lines of  "here's the packet" and "here's the correct result."
>
> Best regards,
> Matt - N8SHA
>
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