From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Samer Masterson <samer@samertm.com>
Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding testing information to CONTRIBUTE
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:41:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zj7ro0q5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1425553346.2108.2@mail.samertm.com>
> Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 03:02:26 -0800
> From: Samer Masterson <samer@samertm.com>
> Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org
>
> 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.
Most of this is described in ert.info, which I presume you've read.
I agree that CONTRIBUTE should mention that manual (right near the
place that it mentions "Tips" and "GNU Emacs Internals").
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-05 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-05 11:02 Adding testing information to CONTRIBUTE Samer Masterson
2015-03-05 14:14 ` 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 [this message]
2015-03-05 19:25 ` Samer Masterson
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