Re: running without a mainlopp for unittests

[Stefan Kost <kost imn htwk-leipzig de>]

Hi,

I use check too ;).
Are your tests available somehwere ?

Stefan

Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:07:48 +0100, Stefan Kost
> <kost imn htwk-leipzig de> wrote:
>
> > hi hi,
> >
> > I currently fight with some highlevel unit test, that should basically start the
> > application and immeditely exit.
> > The Problem I have is that instead of calling gtk_main() I want to init
> > everything and then shut-down.
> >
> > The test-framework stats tests with fork to capture crashing.
> > Before I initialize g_thread and gdk_threads. I wrap lauching the test suite in
> > gdk_thread_enter/leave().
> >
> > When the tests run, I often get XLib errors a la
> > sequence lost (0x100b9 > 0xb9) in reply to 0x0!
> > ...
> >
> > To me this sounds like probelm in message passing. Should I add another
> > gdk_thread_enter/leave() after the fork (for each test case)?
> >
> > Does anyone do unit test that test the GUI?
>
>
> I use "check" to unit test things that run in a GMainLoop, I dont use it
> for the GUI mostly because the vast majority of tests I have to run on
> GUI elements are functional tests.
>
> In "check" there is a mechanism that allows you to setup "init" and
> "teardown" stubs (that are also unit test functions) that will be run
> after the fork() and before the exit() for every "unit test" in a given
> "test suite", I would think that gtk_init() would belong in one of these
> "init" stubs
>
> If your test application is "forked" (like check does) it shouln't cause any
> conflicts at the xlib client-server level (contrary to if it was threaded), so
> I'm quite sure you dont need to hold the gdk_threads_mutex during unit
> tests.
>
> Just my 2 cents ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>                                                       -Tristan

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