PSRCHIVE Testing Wishlist

Each of the following tests will require some input data files

Basic Code Integrity

• memory leaks: repeatedly allocate and destroy an object and monitor memory usage (cf. top)
• unclosed file descriptors: load and destroy objects that construct from files more than STREAM_MAX times (see sysconf manual).

Basic I/O

• psredit -c <attribute>
• psredit -c <attribute=value> <-m|-e ext|-O path>
• psrtxt
• fidelity: copy, unload, reload, and compare various objects that load from files
• all of the above repeated for each file format of interest

Data reduction/combination

• tscrunch pam -T
• fscrunch pam -F
• psradd
• psradd -R
• install a new ephemeris pam -E

RFI Mitigation

• paz -z,Z
• paz -w,W
• paz -I
• paz -r
• paz -l,L

Timing

• pat -C <attribute>
• pat -f <format [flags]>
• pat -A <shift estimator>
• pat -p

Polarimetric Calibration

• pcm MEM
• pcm MTM
• pcm MEM/MTM
• pac

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