Re: Gtkvts conclusions

[Iago Toral Quiroga <itoral igalia com>]

El lun, 18-09-2006 a las 23:32 +0200, Juan José Sánchez Penas escribió:
> hi
> 
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:33:03AM +0200, Iago Toral Quiroga wrote:
> > In a few words, I think it is better to start the Gtk+ testing suite
> > from scratch instead of re-using gtkvts. Gtkvts is still a huge
> > collection of tests, but I'm not confident in them because of all the
> > things I have already said before. I think we can do something better if
> > we start from scratch.
> 
> It could be nice to try to contact again the Gtkvts developers and send them
> this short report with all the issues you have found, in order to get some
> feedback from them.

Sure. I can even give them a patch to fix some of the issues I pointed
out before.

> > That said, I will retake my patch to add "Check" support to Gtk+ and
> > start working on some unit tests.
> 
> One thing we could still do is using gtkvts in the continuous integration
> loop as a huge bunch of "legacy tests" that can be more or less helpful (to
> be determined); we would develop (and promote the development by third
> parties of) the new tests using tools like check.
> 

Yes. The main problem here is to be able to run the tests with a "make
check" command (needed to integrate them with the continuous integration
system) because of the special way the tests and the makefiles are
generated. I'll take a look at this anyway.

Iago.