Re: Automated regression test?

On 3/19/06, Martin Sevior <msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 09:42 -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > Does Abiword have any sort of automated
> > regression test? i.e. a program you can run
> > that would load AbiWord and simulate the
> > actions of a user, and verify that AbiWord behaves
> > properly?
>
> The AbiCollab plugin provides the framework for a cross platform
> method of performing automated regression tests.
> ...
> There is also a more general solution for all gtk-based programs called
> dogtail which uses the accessibility framework built into gtk

Thanks for those pointers. (I hadn't heard of Dogtail before, but I
had heard of the similar package LDTP.)
Thanks also to Marc for the pointer to the abi-regression report,
which looks like a very nice test of the input and export filters.

Since my goal is to test the Windows version of Abiword,
the Gnome tools aren't going to help my particular need.
And since I want to test the UI widgets, I think AbiCollab
won't quite do what I need, either.

If I do anything, it'll either be a simple set of scripts that
use some existing open source test framework like CxTest,
or a standalone opensource C program that sends Windows events to
AbiWord, or some combination. (The latter might fit into
your build & test environment more easily -- cxtest has some
surprising dependencies :-) Whatever I do will be a simple
proof of concept just to see if it's practical.

Thanks,
Dan
Received on Mon Mar 20 01:57:54 2006