Re: [gdm-list] automated unit testing in GDM

["William Jon McCann" <mccann jhu edu>]

Hi Andrew,

On Nov 26, 2007 10:52 AM, Andrew Ziem <ahz001 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Attached is a proposed patch (against the SVN trunk) to bring unit
> testing and its benefits to GDM.  Even though I otherwise prefer
> CppUnit, I chose check against CppUnit simply because the CppUnit
> requires a C++ compiler and check does not.  Another attached patch
> allow the initial tests to pass.
>
> Accepting unit testing into GDM implies writing more tests, maintaining
> the tests, fixing code to pass the tests, refactoring code into testable
> pieces, documenting code, etc.   At a glance, it appears GDM may be
> already undergoing some of these changes.
>
> In the future, it would be helpful to conditionally include check into
> configure.ac, so that it is possible to run "./configure; make" without
> check.

Sorry for the long delay...

Thanks for looking into this.  I've committed something based on this
to trunk.  I've made it optional.

Thanks,
Jon