From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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 09:42:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1J9Lqt-0007Q8-GH@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47782302.5000201@fastmail.net> (message from Christian Ohler on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:18 +0100)
ert.el looks very useful. Would you like to contribute it to Emacs?
One of the things that has held us back from setting up a test suite
in the past is that only a minority of Emacs bugs concern Lisp progrmming.
Most Emacs bugs involve keyboard commands and/or redisplay.
It occurs to me that M-x term could be used to test for redisplay.
The idea is that you run a sub-Emacs, send it commands, and check what
it displayed (because what it displayed is now in a buffer).
It would be terribly slow to do this starting a new sub-Emacs for each
test. So the test framework ought to be designed to do many such tests
with the same sub-Emacs, clearing out whatever is necessary each time.
I think that an extension to ert.el, for sub-Emacs testing, might make
it easy to define those tests, much as ert.el makes it easy to define
tests of Lisp execution.
Interested?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-31 14:42 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)
2008-01-05 11:32 ` Christian Ohler
2007-12-31 14:42 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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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