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Subject: Re: Test framework needed
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Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> writes:

>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UnitTesting
>
> Am I right in assuming, that all of the possible test frameworks would
> require org files and the expected output (tengle, export to ...,
> agenda, ...)? In this case, would it make sense to start collecting
> those, as they can easily be user contributed, consequently representing
> a cross section of the use cases (even not intended use cases)?

Before you go too far with this; Orgmode already contains a unit test
suite. Look at the README in the testing directory
(http://orgmode.org/w/?p=org-mode.git;a=blob_plain;f=testing/README.org;hb=HEAD)

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