From: Samer Masterson <samer@samertm.com>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org
Subject: Adding testing information to CONTRIBUTE
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 03:02:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1425553346.2108.2@mail.samertm.com> (raw)
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Hey list,
As a new contributor, I have no idea how to run or write tests for
Emacs, which means I end up testing my patches manually and miss bugs.
I could try to learn how Emacs uses tests on my own, but it would
benefit future new contributors if we added a section on testing to
CONTRIBUTE.
Here is what I would want to see:
- How to write tests, with a pointer to an internal Emacs package that
has idiomatic and comprehensive tests.
- How to run tests on the entire tree and on individual files.
- A pointer to an info page on the testing framework/pattern that most
internal Emacs packages use.
Would anyone be interested in working on this? cc'ing Stephen Leake
because he lead the most recent major changes to CONTRIBUTE.
-samer
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next reply other threads:[~2015-03-05 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-05 11:02 Samer Masterson [this message]
2015-03-05 14:14 ` Adding testing information to CONTRIBUTE Samer Masterson
2015-03-05 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-05 19:31 ` Samer Masterson
2015-03-15 7:49 ` [PATCH] " Samer Masterson
2015-03-15 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-05 16:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-05 19:25 ` Samer Masterson
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