Add a way for end users to test their strategies about crapssim

[skent259]

I think this is a great idea. By far the most time consuming aspect of writing a strategy is testing it, and this is a really clever way to do that testing.

I think there might be a few more pieces of information that could impact the strategy:

• which number the point is on
• whether there is a new shooter (maybe?)

The idea you mention for development testing might also be useful for an end user. I'm picturing that this would add only the unique scenarios for a given strategy. So they could either:

• specify a few scenarios to test, then have the function check them explicitly
• let the strategy run, function adds some rows to csv, then the user can manually check for accuracy

I think this would lead to 3 functions, create_strategy_test_file(), run_strategy_test_file(), and check_strategy_test_file(), where check does what you proposed in run, and run takes an argument for the number of rolls to consider.

[amortization]

I think there might be a few more pieces of information that could impact the strategy:

• which number the point is on
• whether there is a new shooter (maybe?)

For the point I pictured it either being the point number or "off" instead of splitting out the status and number. I think new shooter would be good, but I might make it (and point) optional since 95% of the time new shooter won't matter.

The idea you mention for development testing might also be useful for an end user. I'm picturing that this would add only the >unique scenarios for a given strategy. So they could either:

specify a few scenarios to test, then have the function check them explicitly
let the strategy run, function adds some rows to csv, then the user can manually check for accuracy

I like this idea a lot. I'm going to play around with it and might end up combining the two creation into one method with the option.