[bug #64509] new tests are not reproducible, e.g. tmac/tests/an_MR-works.sh

[Bjarni Ingi Gislason]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64509>

                 Summary: new tests are not reproducible, e.g.
tmac/tests/an_MR-works.sh
                   Group: GNU roff
               Submitter: bjarniig
               Submitted: Wed 02 Aug 2023 10:37:23 PM UTC
                Category: Macro man
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Test
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None


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Date: Wed 02 Aug 2023 10:37:23 PM UTC By: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig>
Subject: new tests are not reproducible, e.g. tmac/tests/an_MR-works.sh

An example is "an_MR-works.sh".

  After adding

.ds MF I

  to the INPUT in a line before '.TH ...'
I get the expected result.

  Tests should be independent of the surroundings and should provide the
data, on which the results are based.

  Tests are not to test the value of some used variable(!),
but the code!

  Tests also need to be tested!








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