Re: Unit testing Gtk+ applications

[Tristan Van Berkom <tristan van berkom gmail com>]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:25:59 +0100, Stefan Kost
<kost imn htwk-leipzig de> wrote:
> hi hi,
>
> to avoid reinventing just another wheel - can anyone point me to projects using
> unit tests for a gtk+ based UI. Something like using the application without
> gtk_main(), injecting own events and driving the event-loop via
> gtk_main_iteration_do().

    I use check (check.sf.net) unit test framework for any lower level modules
(anything "unit testable") and only functional tests for GUI stuff (i.e. all my
custom widgets always come with a functional test program).

I've found that main-loop or no main-loop, I've been able to run unit tests
(i.e. some functions I'm unit testing are "meant to integrate into the
GMainloop"),
it really comes down to, "How does your unit test program know to fail if
your animator is displaying garbled data on the screen or is not showing up
at all ?" kind of UI situations that AFAICS are simply not unit testable.

Cheers,
                                                             -Tristan