Re: [XForms] New release

[Jens Thoms Toerring]

Hi Paul,

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 02:18:55PM +0000, Paul wrote:
> Maybe Xnee could be put to use for regression testing,
> 
>  http://itupw056.itu.chalmers.se/project-xnee/

Thanks for the tip, I wasn't aware of that one!

> I wish I had more time, perhaps someone on the mailing list
> will test if the XForms demo program can be exercised by
> using cnee to record and play back a sequence of XEvents.
> If that worked, it could be a nice project for someone to
> make an XForms test program that exercised all the objects
> using cnee.   I suppose at the simplest, it would just
> run a sequence of X events into the form and then test
> the final window against a reference image.

Mmm, that's an idea. You probably would have to run it first
with the old version and then with the new one so that both
use the exact same fonts etc. Could be quite an interesting
project.

Though it would only test those things that have been put
into the scripts and quite a number of bug reports I got
are about combinations I never would have considered (like
"if you have an object of type A and one of type B that
hides part of A and then you do this then A isn't correct-
ly redrawn under certain circumstances"). But I guess that
something that only real world testing will be able to catch...

Anyone feeling like implementing some, however simple, test
suite is heartly invited to do so - I fear I won't have too
much time in the coming months.

                         Best regards, Jens
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