From: Christian Ohler <ohler+emacs@fastmail.net>
To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ert.el --- Emacs Lisp Regression Testing
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:32:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <477F6ADD.2060003@fastmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <477829B9.1070406@gmail.com>
Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007-12-31:
> I will try to test it ;-)
Please do so -- perhaps by writing a few test cases for Emacs ;-)
> One thing that might be handy is something that runs selected entries in
> a new instance of Emacs, starting from either "emacs" or "emacs -Q". I
> think that is one of the most common things I do when I am testing.
ERT currently allows you to run your tests in a fresh emacs by running
emacs -Q --batch --load my-tests.el --eval '(ert-run-tests-batch t)'
in a terminal (or possibly under M-x compile, but I haven't tried that).
However, that would be an edit-compile-run development cycle. I am much
more productive programming and testing interactively in one single
Emacs instance.
I see two main reasons for running tests in a separate Emacs: For
testing without customizations (emacs -Q) or other Emacs versions, and
for long-running test suites that you don't want to block your main
Emacs instance with. So far, the above method was sufficient for me in
those situations (because tests that have already succeeded in my Emacs
rarely fail in a separate one, so I rarely missed ERT's interactive
debugging facilities).
Maybe IELM could be used to implement a convenient interface for running
an inferior Emacs that runs the tests (which could, in turn, involve
running another nested Emacs in M-x term). This even sounds like an
interesting project to implement. However, to get started building test
suites for Emacs or Elisp packages, the current options are probably
sufficient.
Christian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-05 11:32 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 [this message]
2007-12-31 14:42 ` Richard Stallman
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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