From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Need for a Emacs regression test suite Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:19:54 +0200 Message-ID: <46E2E7CA.8070909@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189275615 6975 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2007 18:20:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 18:20:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: dhruva Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 08 20:20:13 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IU4uf-0004Ih-VM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:20:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IU4ud-000500-Ks for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:20:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IU4uY-0004ux-WC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:20:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IU4uX-0004sr-Bz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:20:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IU4uX-0004sZ-3q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:20:01 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IU4uW-0004Mt-K8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:20:00 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-133-189.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.133.189]:60657 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1IU4uS-0006Hv-8U; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:19:59 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000773-2, 2007-09-07), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.133.189 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IU4uS-0006Hv-8U. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1IU4uS-0006Hv-8U 5166a700fc530d0d672711f5532a63e6 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:78281 Archived-At: dhruva wrote: > Hi, > The various changes getting into Emacs and number of things breaking > sporadically, IMO we need to have a regression suite. A collection > batch mode scripts and macros to test the GUI invocation. > It will take time to build it but would be useful. We can catch > issues during big merges much earlier in the cycle. > We could start small and build up the suite. What does the core team feel? > > -dky There is a page about unit testing on EmacsWiki that might help: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/UnitTesting