From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Christian Ohler <ohler+emacs@fastmail.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ert.el --- Emacs Lisp Regression Testing
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:28:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <477829B9.1070406@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47782302.5000201@fastmail.net>
Christian Ohler wrote:
> I'm a big fan of automated testing/unit testing. However, it seems that
> there is no widely-used testing framework for Emacs Lisp yet. I've
> tried various packages (regress.el, elunit.el, elk-test.el, XEmacs'
> test-harness.el, the code in slime.el, and cc-mode's tests), but they're
> all either too simplistic, very specialized, or not very Lispy.
>
> Here's the code that I use at the moment. It requires Emacs 22.
>
> Please try it out and let me know what you think. Something like this
> really ought to be added to Emacs.
I will try to test it ;-)
One thing that might be handy is something that runs selected entries in
a new instance of Emacs, starting from either "emacs" or "emacs -Q". I
think that is one of the most common things I do when I am testing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-30 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-30 23:00 ert.el --- Emacs Lisp Regression Testing Christian Ohler
2007-12-30 23:28 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-01-05 11:32 ` Christian Ohler
2007-12-31 14:42 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-05 11:32 ` Christian Ohler
2008-01-05 13:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-06 8:10 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-06 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-07 11:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-07 13:00 ` Mike Mattie
2008-01-03 18:48 ` Phil Hagelberg
2008-01-05 11:32 ` Christian Ohler
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