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From: Ben Alexander <bva@alexanderonline.org>
To: sebastian_rose@gmx.de
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How you can help
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:04:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <967CE7ED-05E9-4031-9F3B-CFB826511554@alexanderonline.org> (raw)

Sebastian Rose wrote:
 >  5. I also think of little packages for testing parts of org.

I'm curious if you or someone else has any ideas for writing automated  
tests for org-mode.  I haven't the foggiest idea how someone would  
write a test for the parts of org that control what is displayed on  
the screen.  I mean, when the bug is 'it doesn't look right' how can  
you tell?

Perhaps the git repository should have a small collection of small org- 
mode files that reproduce certain bugs?  If there were some examples  
of how to create such a test, then perhaps bug reporters would find it  
much easier to create them.

I do see some confusing issues due to different configuration files.   
So creating a test file might involve making sure org-mode doesn't  
read any configuration (how do you do that?) and possible asking org- 
mode to extract all the configuration variables it has right now and  
dump them into a test file (...and how do you do that?)

             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-23 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-23 12:04 Ben Alexander [this message]
2008-10-23 13:43 ` How you can help Bernt Hansen
2008-10-23 15:04   ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 15:49     ` Richard Riley
2008-10-23 16:22       ` Ben Alexander
2008-10-23 17:02       ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-24 12:13         ` Richard Riley
2008-10-24 15:39           ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-24 16:27           ` Manish
2008-10-24 18:41             ` Avdi Grimm
2008-10-23 19:13       ` Avdi Grimm
2008-10-24 12:19         ` Richard Riley
2008-10-23 16:19     ` Bernt Hansen
2008-10-24  5:05       ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-23 17:01   ` Jason F. McBrayer
2008-10-23 23:46     ` Eric Schulte
2008-10-23 14:20 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 14:50   ` Manish
2008-10-23 15:46     ` Eric Schulte
2008-10-23 16:18       ` Avdi Grimm
2008-10-23 14:55   ` Ben Alexander
2008-10-23 16:26     ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 16:42       ` Avdi Grimm
2008-10-23 17:33         ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 19:10           ` Avdi Grimm
2008-10-24 21:09           ` Tom Breton (Tehom)
2008-10-24 18:33         ` Ben Alexander
2008-10-24 18:44           ` Avdi Grimm
2008-10-24 19:02             ` Jeff Mickey
2008-10-26 19:49             ` org-cycle broken when cursor is at ellipses Ben Alexander
2008-10-26 21:31               ` Cameron Horsburgh
2008-10-27  8:47                 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-27  8:47               ` Carsten Dominik
     [not found]       ` <D43ED86C-EFD4-4BA8-8528-4F82DB11D625@alexanderonline.org>
2008-10-23 17:12         ` How you can help Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 15:08 ` Sebastian Rose
     [not found] <E1Kt27M-0008Tx-0J@box188.bluehost.com>
2008-10-23 16:11 ` Robert Goldman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-23  7:35 Carsten Dominik
2008-10-23  8:12 ` Manish
2008-10-23  9:24 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 10:28   ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 15:23 ` Russell Adams

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