Re: Testing GDL2

[David Ayers]

Stéphane Corthésy wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Are there somewhere test cases to help testing GDL2? Did anyone write 
> some small apps testing GDL2?

Hello Stéphane,

Well actually, when I find time, I'm working on a small set of samples 
that test certain parts of GDL2.  AFAIK there are also some poeple who 
are trying to setup some more comprehensive test suits.  It would be 
nice, if we could agree on a standard test suite to use throughout the 
GNUstep projects.  I started looking into 'guile' but had trouble 
finding the correct version (It seems 1.6.X has depricated somethings 
GNUstep-guiile uses.)  But even after reverting to 1.4.1 I wasn't able 
to set it up correctly.  But then again I'm absolutly new to guile, 
which isn't the best precondition to setup test cases for GDL2 in the 
first place :-). So now I'm back to small test files, but sofar there 
probably a lot less complex then than the example that you are currently 
testing with.

I would like to take the oppurtunity to see if there is any interest in 
standardizing tests for GNUstep.  I understand that given the dramatic 
diffrences in approaches for a gui-app and gsweb-app that there will 
still be some specialized testing approaches for these parts, but I 
think standard "regression tests" to test the API basics should be 
implemented using one standardized test suite.  Personally I have no 
particualr preference (yet :-) ).

Cheers,
Dave