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[Orgmode] Re: How you can help
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Bernt Hansen |
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[Orgmode] Re: How you can help |
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Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:43:46 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
Ben Alexander <address@hidden> writes:
> 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?)
Running a minimal emacs should suppress custom config files:
emacs -q -l yourtest.el
Some kind of regression testing framework would be awesome. Org-mode is
large enough that this is almost a necessity to keep things stable and
bug-free.
Maybe something can be put together from the git testing framework and
use of emacs -batch to process test org files and verify the output is
as expected (with diff or some other tool).
-Bernt
- [Orgmode] How you can help, Carsten Dominik, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Orgmode] How you can help, Ben Alexander, 2008/10/23
- [Orgmode] Re: How you can help,
Bernt Hansen <=
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: How you can help, Richard Riley, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: How you can help, Ben Alexander, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: How you can help, Sebastian Rose, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: How you can help, Richard Riley, 2008/10/24
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: How you can help, Sebastian Rose, 2008/10/24
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: How you can help, Manish, 2008/10/24
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: How you can help, Avdi Grimm, 2008/10/24