test frameworks

test frameworks

[Joe Brenner]

A few years ago, there was a discussion of developing a
framework for automated tests of emacs:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg00752.html

Has any progress been made in that direction?

There's a number of contenders for a test framework up on the emacs wiki
page for Unit Testing:

  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UnitTesting

But it's not clear if anyone has made any effort toward
evaluating them.  After a quick look at their write-ups, none of
them grab my attention as being obvious contenders.

For example, it doesn't look to me like any of them use TAP, the
"Test Anything Protocol":

  http://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Re: test frameworks

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Joe Brenner<doom@kzsu.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> A few years ago, there was a discussion of developing a
> framework for automated tests of emacs:
>
>  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg00752.html
>
> Has any progress been made in that direction?


I am using a modified version of ert.el for testing nXhtml. The
modifications adds things like running commands and doing
fontification. The modified version is part of the nXhtml
distribution.

Re: test frameworks

[Joe Brenner]

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:

> Joe Brenner<doom@kzsu.stanford.edu> wrote:
> >
> > A few years ago, there was a discussion of developing a
> > framework for automated tests of emacs:
> >
> >   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg00752.html
> >
> > Has any progress been made in that direction?
>
>
> I am using a modified version of ert.el for testing nXhtml. The
> modifications adds things like running commands and doing
> fontification. The modified version is part of the nXhtml
> distribution.
>

Okay... so I gather the answer is that there's no official test
framework endorsed for the project as a whole.

Could we say that ert.el is the leading contender?