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+/*=========================================================================
+
+Program:   Medical Imaging & Interaction Toolkit
+Language:  C++
+Date:      $Date$
+Version:   $Revision: 7837 $
+
+Copyright (c) German Cancer Research Center, Division of Medical and
+Biological Informatics. All rights reserved.
+See MITKCopyright.txt or http://www.mitk.org/copyright.html for details.
+
+This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
+the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
+PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notices for more information.
+
+=========================================================================*/
+
+#include "mitkExtractDirectedPlaneImageFilter.h"
+#include "mitkStandardFileLocations.h"
+
+#include "mitkTestingMacros.h"
+
+#include <iostream>
+
+/**
+ *  Tests for the class "mitkExtractDirectedPlaneImageFilter".
+ *  
+ *  argc and argv are the command line parameters which were passed to 
+ *  the ADD_TEST command in the CMakeLists.txt file. For the automatic
+ *  tests, argv is either empty for the simple tests or contains the filename
+ *  of a test image for the image tests (see CMakeLists.txt).
+ */
+int mitkExtractDirectedPlaneImageFilterTest(int /* argc */, char* /*argv*/[])
+{
+	// always start with this!
+	MITK_TEST_BEGIN("mitkExtractDirectedPlaneImageFilter")
+
+
+		mitk::ExtractDirectedPlaneImageFilter::Pointer extractor = mitk::ExtractDirectedPlaneImageFilter::New();
+	MITK_TEST_CONDITION_REQUIRED(extractor.IsNotNull(),"Testing instantiation") 
+
+
+		std::vector<ExtractionTesting::Testcase> allTests = ExtractionTesting::InitializeTestCases();
+
+	for( int i = 0; i < allTests.size(); i++);{
+
+		ExtractionTesting::Testcase testCase = allTest[i];
+
+		ExtractionTesting::DoTesting(testCase);
+
+		MITK_TEST_CONDITION(testCase.success, "Testcase #'" << testCase.number << " " << testCase.name); 
+	}
+
+	// always end with this!
+	MITK_TEST_END()
+}
+
+class ExtractionTesting{
+
+public:
+
+	struct Testcase
+	{
+		int number;
+		std::string name;
+		std::string imageFilename;
+		std::string referenceImageFilename;
+		bool success;
+		mitk::Geometry2D::Pointer (*GetPlane) (void);
+	};
+
+	static void DoTesting(Testcase &testcase)
+	{
+		mitk::Image::Pointer image = GetImageToTest(testcase.imageFilename);
+		if ( image.IsNull){
+			testcase.success = false;
+			return;
+		}
+
+		mitk::Image::Pointer referenceImage = GetImageToTest(testcase.referenceImageFilename);
+		if ( referenceImage.IsNull){
+			testcase.success = false;
+			return;
+		}
+
+		mitk::Geometry2D::Pointer directedGeometry2D = testcase.GetPlane();
+		if(directedGeometry2D.IsNull){
+			testcase.success = false;
+		}
+
+		//put testing here
+	}
+
+
+	static std::vector<testCase> InitializeTestCases()
+	{
+		int testcounter = 0;
+		std::vector<testCase> tests=
+
+		//#BEGIN setup TestCases
+
+		{
+			{
+				++testcounter,
+				"TestCoronal",
+				"image.nrrd",
+				"coronalReference.nrrd",
+				false,
+				&TestCoronal
+			},
+			{
+				++testcounter,
+				"TestSagital",
+				"image.nrrd",
+				"sagitalReference.nrrd",
+				false,
+				&TestSagital
+			},
+			{
+				++testcounter,
+				"TestCoronal",
+				"image.nrrd",
+				"coronalReference.nrrd",
+				false,
+				&TestCoronal
+			},
+			{
+				++testcounter,
+				"Test_u_Rotation",
+				"image.nrrd",
+				"uRotationReference.nrrd",
+				false,
+				&Test_u_Rotation
+			},
+			{
+				++testcounter,
+				"Test_v_Rotation",
+				"image.nrrd",
+				"vRotationReference.nrrd",
+				false,
+				&Test_v_Rotation
+			},
+			{
+				++testcounter,
+				"TestTwoDirectionalRation",
+				"image.nrrd",
+				"twoDirectionalRationReference.nrrd",
+				false,
+				&TestTwoDirectionalRotation
+			},
+			{
+				++testcounter,
+				"Test4D",
+				"image.nrrd",
+				"twoDirectionalRationReference.nrrd",
+				false,
+				&Test4D
+			},
+			{
+				++testcounter,
+				"Test2D",
+				"coronalReference.nrrd",
+				"coronalReference.nrrd",
+				false,
+				&Test2D
+			},
+			{
+				++testcounter,
+				"Test2D",
+				NULL,
+				NULL,
+				false,
+				&Test1D
+			}
+
+		};
+
+		//#END setup TestCases
+
+		return tests;
+	}
+
+protected:
+
+	static mitk::Image::Pointer GetImageToTest(std::string filename){
+		//retrieve referenceImage
+
+		mitk::StandardFileLocations::Pointer locator = mitk::StandardFileLocations::GetInstance();
+
+		const std::string filepath = locator->FindFile(filename, "Modules/MitkExt/Testing/Data");
+
+		if (filepath.empty())
+		{
+			return NULL;
+		}
+
+//TODO read imge from file
+		itk::FilenamesContainer file;
+		file.push_back( filename );
+
+		mitk::Image::Pointer image = mitk::Image::New();
+
+		return image;
+	}
+
+
+	static mitk::Geometry2D::Pointer TestSagital()
+	{
+		
+
+	}
+
+	static mitk::Geometry2D::Pointer TestCoronal()
+	{
+
+	}
+
+	static mitk::Geometry2D::Pointer TestTransversal()
+	{
+
+	}
+
+	static mitk::Geometry2D::Pointer Test_u_Rotation()
+	{
+
+	}
+
+	static mitk::Geometry2D::Pointer Test_v_Rotation()
+	{
+
+	}
+
+	static mitk::Geometry2D::Pointer TestTwoDirectionalRotation()
+	{
+
+	}
+
+	static mitk::Geometry2D::Pointer Test4DImage()
+	{
+
+	}
+
+	static mitk::Geometry2D::Pointer Test2DImage()
+	{
+
+	}
+
+	static mitk::Geometry2D::Pointer Test1DImage()
+	{
+
+	}
+
+};
+