Re: gtk2-perl / suggesting adding automated testcases

[goran kirra net]

I think you're on the right rack here.
The test suit used by a CPAN install:
bash# perl Makefile.PL && make && make test && make install
should run without requiring user interaction.
An interactive test suit run should be recommended but not required.

/göran

On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:25:18PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As you may know, in the gtk2-perl effort lead by Goran, the
> testcases are an important thing.
>
> While coding the handling of perl strings to use with gtkenums
> (e.g. passing 'toplevel' to the Gtk2::Window::new), I've put the
> following code in "misc-examples/enums-as-strings.pl"; it runs a
> series of significative tests, without user interaction, and die
> when an unexpected error happens.
>
> Why not using this? I don't suggest removing existing test cases
> or tutorial examples that require user interaction, just adding
> another "categories" of testcases, "automatic" ones.
>
> Then, when we change potentially intrusive code, we'll just have
> to run something of the like "make automatic-tests" and voila :).
>
> -=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=--
> print "Testing creation of a Gtk::Window with 'toplevel' as an arg.\n";
> $w = new Gtk2::Window('toplevel');
> $w->isa('Gtk2::Window') or die "FAILURE: Previous call should have created a Gtk::Window\n";
>
> print "Testing creation of a Gtk::Window with 'topleel' as an arg (expecting failure).\n";
> eval { $w = new Gtk2::Window('topleel') };
> $@ =~ /^FATAL: invalid GtkWindowType value topleel/ or die "FAILURE: Previous call should throw an 
> exception ($@)\n";
>
> print "\nAll Ok.\n";
> -=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=--
>
> -- 
> Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/