[Geocoding] Is there a Nominatim test suite?

[Marc Tobias]

Hi,

Given how many open bugs/defects/feature requests I see in TRAC/github
I wonder if there is an automated test suite?

How are the test cases on
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/TestCases used? The wiki
history shows only 9 additions during 2013.

If there isn't, what would be the best approach? PHP tests running
against a local installation? Or something which runs against
nominatim.openstreetmap.org because the full planet data is required?

I'm aware of the usual "but the underlying data keeps changing"
challenge. A couple of years ago I wrote a limited geocoder against
Whereonearth[1] data. Automated tests helped me a lot, e.g. when
suddenly the wrong Paris was found.


thx

marc tobias
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whereonearth