dogtail-devel Re: gedit tests

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

Il giorno gio, 13/10/2005 alle 00.13 -0400, Dave Malcolm ha scritto:
> [cc'ed to dogtail-devel-list]
> 
> I enjoyed reading your blog today, and decided to have a go at
> implementing some of the test cases you proposed here:
> http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/TestCases
> 

Awesome!

(I know that the blog entry sounds a bit negative with regard to the
dogtail-vs-ldtp issue, but let me state that I am impressed by dogtail
from a technical point of view)

> I implemented test 1 and test 3 from your list, and comitted the result
> here:
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/dogtail-tests/gedit/gedit-saving-tests.py?view=markup
> 
> It uses the gedit.py wrapper you wrote, which I imported into CVS here:
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/dogtail/dogtail/apps/wrappers/gedit.py?view=markup
> 
> As as experiment I tried using the python unittest module; AFAIK no-
> one's tried this before with a dogtail script: it seems to work quite
> well - I wonder what the main dogtail developers think of this approach?
> 
> Seems to work, with a couple of caveats:
> (i) looking at a hexdump of the output file, it has content 'bar\x0a',
> so I've checked for that in the tests

gedit (as vim and others editors) always makes sure that the file is
terminated with a \n otherwise some of the command line utils do not
work properly.

> (ii) looking at the log (which I've attached) on running the tests, I
> get some spurious print output:
> ** (process:6105): WARNING **: Failed to send buffer
> This looks like a bug in dogtail to me.
> 
> Hope this is useful; another step closer to getting automated tests into
> the gnome tinderbox...
> 
> Dave