General information

This chapter aims to explain the use and structure of the built-in test-suite.

This test suite is intended to be useful for both physicists and computer scientists. With it, known physical questions are used as a test to guarantee the correctness of the PIC code. In this way, further developments can be checked easily. Furthermore, it can also be used to test these physical properties in a simulation and thus be used to evaluate the simulation.

If you read this documentation like a book carry on in the order of the table of contents. However, note the code and examples that run alongside this documentation.

To get familiar with the development of a new test case, start with the rough structure of the test suite and some examples. After looking at some examples and explaining how to build a new test case, continue on to running a test. For a bit more in-depth information see the Code Documentation.