[mcclim-devel] One char patch to presentation-defs [really future of McCLIM]

[C Y]

--- Paolo Amoroso <amoroso at mclink.it> wrote:
>
> By the what, what does a GUI test suite look like?

Hmm, interesting question actually!  The only ones I can recall seeing
usually seem to test if something is displayed properly by running
through a bunch of "test" applications and watching for errors
reported, or don't do anything automatically but consist of demo
programs which are intended to exercise parts of the code.

More interesting might be to store pixmaps or vector descriptions of
correctly rendered test windows/apps, compare internally an internally
rendered bitmap to the stored "correct" version, and see if there is
any difference.  Advantages:  doesn't need to display anything
onscreen, and thus doesn't need a graphical desktop to do "real"
testing.  Disadvantages: space intensive and rather difficult to code.

Much of the code could probably use ordinary unit testing, the
challenge would be ones where the output of interest is graphical. 
Nifty to think about.

Cheers,
CY


		
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