Running tests

Unit tests

To run the test program, make test and type:

> bin/featselTest

It should run all the tests automatically, displaying the results into the standard output.

Performance tests

To run benchmarking tests against Weka, you should first set a variable WEKAINSTALL on your environment to be the directory of your weka.jar file. For Weka versions 3.7.2 and higher you also need to download the attribute selection search methods package and extract the file attributeSelectionSearchMethods.jar to your WEKAINSTALL directory.

Then, you should be able to run To run benchmarking tests against Weka by typing:

> bin/compare_featsel_against_Weka.pl

This script requires

This script runs featsel and Weka, alternately, against several data sets obtained from the UCI Machine Learning Repository.