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== Solr Testing Is Easy with Rspec-Solr Gem ==
* Naomi Dushay, Stanford University, ndushay AT stanford DOT edu
How do you know if
* your idea for "left anchoring" searches actually works?
* your field analysis for LC call numbers accommodates a suffix between the first and second cutter without breaking the rest of LC call number parsing?
* tweaking Solr configs to improve, say, Chinese searching, won't break Turkish and Cyrillic?
* changes to your solrconfig file accomplish what you wanted without breaking anything else?
Avoid the whole app stack when writing Solr acceptance/relevancy/regression tests! Forget cucumber and capybara. This gem lets you easily (only 4 short files needed!) write tests like this, passing arbitrary parameters to Solr:
it "unstemmed author name Zare should precede stemmed variants" do
resp = solr_response(author_search_args('Zare').merge({'fl'=>'id,author_person_display', 'facet'=>false}))
resp.should include("author_person_display" => /\bZare\W/).in_each_of_first(3).documents
resp.should_not include("author_person_display" => /Zaring/).in_each_of_first(20).documents
end
it "Cyrillic searching should work: Восемьсoт семьдесят один день" do
resp = solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'Восемьсoт семьдесят один день'})
resp.should include("9091779")
end
it "q of 'String quartets Parts' and variants should be plausible " do
resp = solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'String quartets Parts'})
resp.should have_at_least(2000).documents
resp.should have_the_same_number_of_results_as(solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'(String quartets Parts)'}))
resp.should have_more_results_than(solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'"String quartets Parts"'}))
end
it "Traditional Chinese chars 三國誌 should get the same results as simplified chars 三国志" do
resp = solr_response({'q'=>'三國誌', 'fl'=>'id', 'facet'=>false})
resp.should have_at_least(240).documents
resp.should have_the_same_number_of_results_as(solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'三国志'}))
end
See
http://rubydoc.info/github/sul-dlss/rspec-solr/frames
https://github.com/sul-dlss/rspec-solr
and our production relevancy/acceptance/regression tests slowly migrating from cucumber to:
https://github.com/sul-dlss/sw_index_tests
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