Re: next bugfix release?

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Nick Roberts<nickrob@snap.net.nz> wrote:
>  > Yes.  It's one of these @dfn{wallpaper paste} bugs, where when you press
>  > an area of wallpaper firmly to the wall, the paste under it pops up
>  > another bit of wallpaper somewhere else.  It's going to be a horrible bug
>  > to fix.  Indeed, it may not be fixable, in the sense of doing the Right
>  > Thing under every reasonable circumstance.
>
> Such 'bubbles', usually called regressions, might be less likely to appear
> if, as Cyd suggested, there was a CC mode equivalent of compilation.txt.
> I can't find this post now, so apologies if it reached a logical conclusion.
> It might also be harder to implement than compilation.txt, as expressions
> are probably not as self contained, but some kind of testuite seems essential
> to prevent these issues from recurring.


Is not some kind of unit tests what we want here?

Adding a unit test for at least every serious and difficult bug seems
to me the right thing to do.


There are some unit tests frameworks on EmacsWiki. I have one modified
version of one of these in nXhtml. And CEDET has some unit tests
(which I have not looked at but I have run the test suite).