From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Brenner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: test frameworks Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:16:24 -0700 Message-ID: <200906050216.n552GOj7039539@kzsu.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244170603 21053 80.91.229.12 (5 Jun 2009 02:56:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 02:56:43 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 05 04:56:39 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MCPbf-00013d-VL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:56:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57352 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCPbc-0006pS-AI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:56:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MCOz4-0006TI-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:16:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MCOz0-0006KF-08 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:16:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34976 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCOyz-0006Jx-RR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:16:37 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp4.stanford.edu ([171.67.219.84]:51491) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MCOyy-00009n-BP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:16:37 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp4.stanford.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id C81E2C779 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 19:16:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from kzsu.stanford.edu (KZSU.Stanford.EDU [171.66.118.90]) by smtp4.stanford.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94AE2C766 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 19:16:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from kzsu.stanford.edu (localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by kzsu.stanford.edu (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id n552GOj7039539 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 19:16:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doom@kzsu.stanford.edu) X-Mailer: MH-E 8.1; nmh 1.2; GNU Emacs 23.0.60 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 171.66.118.47 X-Greylist: Sender DNS name whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (kzsu.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:16:29 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:111340 Archived-At: 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