Re: [g-a-devel]test-simple in at-spi

["Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain sun com>]

> Subject: Re: [g-a-devel]test-simple in at-spi
> To: Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>
> Cc: "Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain sun com>, accessibility mailing list 
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> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 16:07, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > I think the root of the problem is that test-simple assumes, due to
> > historical accident, that it knows which widget implements AtkText and
> > assumes some things about that widget's state.
> 
> 	That's a feature. It's a regression test designed to find nasty bugs -
> and this is precisely the kind of thing it's designed to catch - a
> missing Text interface where there used to be one :-)
> 

What it was stumbling on was finding a Text interface on an object which 
previously did not have one.

Padraig

> 	Just testing the reported interfaces is never going to catch some of
> the hard-core sillies that we should be checking. We need to expand
> test-simple to hard-code more expected behavior, rather than making it
> simply reflect what is there IMHO.
> 
> 	Regards,
> 
> 		Michael.
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