The unit tests architecture

[Maximilian Kossick]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Dan Meltzer
<parallelgrapefruit at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Nathan Sala <sala.nathan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 2010/1/31 Ian Monroe <ian.monroe at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Nathan Sala <sala.nathan at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Thank you Leo,
>>> >
>>> > This code is really helpful for us!
>>> >
>>> > Anyway, are some people willing to comment a global unit tests
>>> > system refactoring in Amarok?
>>> >
>>>
>>> What do you mean?
>>>
>>> The unit test code is currently quite broken, it doesn't even compile
>>> under linux. :/ But I'm not sure it needs a 'refactor'... it just
>>> needs to be fixed and have tests added to it.
>>
>> What do you mean "broken"? I can compile and run unit tests under Linux.
>
> Are you speaking here of make test or of amarok --test ?  We have two
> completely different systems for no good reason, and I have a feeling
> it's causing confusion here.

True, there are two different kind of unit test systems. I'm talking
about make test. There is a reason that there are two different
systems though. It's that Amarok is currently one big mess of code
that is not testable in isolation. So Sven went ahead and added tests
into amarok itself to get some tests working.

>
>>
>> The system  has recently been sensibly improved by Rick W. Chen,
>> but it is still quite primitive. Create a test requires to modify several
>> files,
>> one of which is App.cpp in several portions of code. Maybe he could share
>> his point of view?
>>
>> QTestLib is a convenient framework we could totally use.
>> One other idea is to make automatic the execution of the html generator.
>>
>>>
>>> Ian
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