summer of code: Code regression test suite, implemented with QtScript

[Ian Monroe]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Igor Trindade Oliveira
<igor_trindade at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> On Sunday 01 March 2009 14:28:36 Ian Monroe wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Igor Trindade Oliveira
>>
>> <igor_trindade at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > My name is Igor Trindade and i was talking about Mark Kretschmann
>> > in IRC and he suggest me send a email to this list talking about my idea
>> > for this project and about me.
>>
>> I'm moving this to amarok at kde.org since thats where we're talking to
>> students (despite what Mark might have said :D).
>>
>> > the project.
>> >
>> > The project would be divided in two parts. The first one is port
>> > akonaditest to use amarok(can be done in two weeks), akonaditest
>> > basically create a new environment so ,for example when run tests the
>> > developer data does not stay compromised( i am akonaditest author).
>> > the second part is write the regression test and the unit test library
>> > for Amarok and integrate it with CMake.
>>
>> I love that you already have experience with testing since we have no
>> experience. :) Amarok has one unit test in trunk... and it doesn't
>> work.
>>
>> Is there something akonadi-specific about akonaditest currently
>> (outside of its name?) Maybe perhaps instead of "porting to Amarok"
>> you could make it generally useful for Qt applications (or is it
>> already?) As you can tell, I don't know much about akonaditest. Since
>> the KDE community as a whole decides which projects are accepted, its
>> better if you can make clear that your project assists the broader KDE
>> community (only if that makes sense of course).
> right now akonaditest just works with Akonadi but  can easy ported to others
> frameworks and applications.

Looking at the akonaditest wiki page, it sets up a test environment
and then runs a bunch of tests. So for Amarok it would setup a test
database and run unit tests I suppose.

So perhaps instead of porting it to Amarok, you could use a plugin
interface to support both akonadi and amarok? I'm not familiar with
the code at all so I don't know if this actually makes sense.

Ian