Re: Gtk+ unit tests (brainstorming)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Michael Urman wrote:
> On 10/25/06, Tim Janik <timj imendio com> wrote:
> > - GLib based test programs should never produce a "CRITICAL **:" or
> >    "WARNING **:" message and succeed.
>
> It would be good not to make it impossible to test WARNINGs and
> CRITICALs. After all, error cases are often the least tested part of
> an application, so it's important to make sure the base library
> detects and handles the error cases correctly.

Testing those is like testing segfault handling, i.e. just nuts. The 
behavior is undefined once they print. (Well, for critical anyway. 
g_warning seems to be less consistently used)

Havoc