Re: Integrating extensions with releases

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi Colin;

On 2 April 2013 14:37, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 13:07 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
>
> > that is going to be massively difficult: we can barely test
> > applications, you want to automatically test a compositor and the
> > combinatorial explosion of 10+ extensions that may or may not conflict
> > between themselves? I doubt you can create an automated system capable
> > of doing that;
>
> We could pretty easily automate basic smoke testing of individual
> extensions.  Given physical hardware:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695731

okay, let me amend that: we can easily test that a extension does not
blow up on load. it's a tad harder to check that it actually does not
regress because of UI changes.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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