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From: Samer Masterson <samer@samertm.com>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org
Subject: Adding testing information to CONTRIBUTE
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 03:02:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1425553346.2108.2@mail.samertm.com> (raw)

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Hey list,

As a new contributor, I have no idea how to run or write tests for 
Emacs, which means I end up testing my patches manually and miss bugs. 
I could try to learn how Emacs uses tests on my own, but it would 
benefit future new contributors if we added a section on testing to 
CONTRIBUTE.

Here is what I would want to see:
 - How to write tests, with a pointer to an internal Emacs package that 
has idiomatic and comprehensive tests.
 - How to run tests on the entire tree and on individual files.
 - A pointer to an info page on the testing framework/pattern that most 
internal Emacs packages use.

Would anyone be interested in working on this? cc'ing Stephen Leake 
because he lead the most recent major changes to CONTRIBUTE.

-samer

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             reply	other threads:[~2015-03-05 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-05 11:02 Samer Masterson [this message]
2015-03-05 14:14 ` Adding testing information to CONTRIBUTE Samer Masterson
2015-03-05 16:47   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-05 19:31     ` Samer Masterson
2015-03-15  7:49       ` [PATCH] " Samer Masterson
2015-03-15 17:39         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-05 16:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-05 19:25   ` Samer Masterson

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