Re: Re: Test framework needed

[Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com>]

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On 30/03/11 16:18, Christian Egli wrote:
> 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)
> 

But it does not look as if it is used very often... There are not many
test org files, and I did not se anything which compares the resulting
exported / tangle  file with an expected output?

Please correct me if I am missing something.

This suite should actually be updated with effectively each patch which
introduces new features and run after each patch.

So is it only necessary to add meat to this framework?

Rainer

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