Re: Archiving tests...

[Fred Kiefer]

On 22.03.2013 20:58, Gregory Casamento wrote:
> I think putting tests in GUI for archiving is important since the point is
> not so much to test the archiver itself but that the GUI classes are,
> indeed, archiving themselves in a way which is universal for all platforms.

Agree

> GUI classes not saving themselves correctly was the issue which prompted
> doing another release since there were bugs in some GUI classes where a
> type of the wrong size was being encoded.  Having these tests would help to
> eliminate the possibility of this happening.

No, it was not the wrong size. The problem was that different compilers 
seemed to store enumerated values either as signed or as unsigned and 
that could only be detected by using cross platform archives.

> ...Slightly off topic...
>
> This discussion also makes me think about what other tests we can do in GUI
> to prevent regressions.
>
> I've been wondering if it might not be possible to build a testing
> framework based on NSEvent so that GUI tests could be scripted instead of
> manually performed, but that's just a thought at the moment.

This is possible, but doesn't involve archives directly what we need 
here is a way to feed stored events into the event queue to simulate 
certain actions being processed. The hard part would still be to verify 
that the correct actions happened.