Re: Locations of Tests

[John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>]

>>>>> Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:

> So, we have thingatpt.el (as a test), file-notify-tests.el (for filenotify).
> There is also no reflection of the organisation of the lisp in the tests.
> So, elisp-mode-tests.el at top level, while elisp-mode.el is in
> lisp/progmodes. Similar issue with gnus-test.el and pcase.el.
> 
> Is there an organisation for tests that I am unaware off? Would there be
> interest in a policy based on file name?

Huge interest. There should be a purely mechanical way of going from a source
file in core, to the set of tests for that file. Then we could add M-x
emacs-lisp-jump-to-test.

I'd happily accept a patch to move things into accordance with the naming
structure under lisp/.

John