From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: burden of maintainance
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 11:47:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83eghd7j3j.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m237xt908g.fsf@gmail.com>
> From: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 09:51:43 +0200
>
> On Thu, Oct 01 2015, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > Suggestions for how to improve our test suite without alienating
> > potential contributors are welcome.
>
> For a start, fix bug#16853.
Why that particular bug? We have lots of open bugs; what's special
about that one.
> Second, make it easy to run the test suite in non-batch mode
It's already possible, I do that quite a lot. What doesn't work for
you?
> as it's impossible to test display related issues in batch mode
> alone. Perhaps use Screen or Xvfb to run the display code without
> physically displaying anything.
These are X- and Unix-specific, AFAIK. And even on those systems,
we'll need a lot of infrastructure built on top of that, before it
will be reasonably practical to write display-related tests. I hope
someone will volunteer to do that.
In any case, the problem is not with actually displaying something,
the problem is how to compare that with some "expected results".
(Assuming you were talking about testing the display engine.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-02 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-01 8:10 burden of maintainance Andreas Röhler
2015-10-01 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-01 18:46 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-01 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-01 20:18 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-01 20:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-02 13:54 ` Przemysław Wojnowski
2015-10-02 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-02 17:18 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-10-02 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-02 18:47 ` joakim
2015-10-02 19:16 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-10-02 20:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-02 19:28 ` Chad Brown
2015-10-02 7:51 ` Helmut Eller
2015-10-02 8:47 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-10-02 8:56 ` Helmut Eller
2015-10-02 8:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-02 11:46 ` Michael Albinus
2015-10-02 11:58 ` Phillip Lord
2015-10-02 13:14 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-10-02 13:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-02 15:00 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-02 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-02 17:19 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-02 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-02 18:54 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-02 20:39 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-10-03 6:53 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-10-03 7:31 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-10-03 1:38 ` Richard Stallman
2015-10-03 0:38 ` Eric Ludlam
2015-10-02 23:24 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-10-03 6:42 ` Przemysław Wojnowski
2015-10-03 7:00 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-10-03 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-01 16:34 ` Przemysław Wojnowski
2015-10-02 11:25 ` Phillip Lord
2015-10-02 12:27 ` Michael Albinus
2015-10-02 14:53 ` Phillip Lord
2015-10-02 16:56 ` Michael Albinus
2015-10-03 1:35 ` Richard Stallman
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