Provision of enabling tests for frameworks

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 7:22 PM Sharaf Zaman <shzam at sdf.org> wrote:
>
> Volker Krause <vkrause at kde.org> writes:
>
> > On Dienstag, 10. Januar 2023 19:10:24 CET Sharaf Zaman wrote:
> >> Today I encountered a bug with KConfig [1], which surfaced because of the
> >> quirks of QSaveFile and Android. Even though these bugs are trivial [2],
> >> but having them in code is bad (especially since, saving files, configs can
> >> be serious if not done properly).
> >>
> >> So, I’d like to ask, is there somebody who is working on getting unit tests
> >> etc to work on Android for kde-frameworks? If not, do you think it would be
> >> a good idea to think about it right now? Given more and more KDE apps are
> >> getting on mobile platform.
> >
> > I absolutely would like to have Android unit tests! Having fixed some of those
> > file I/O issue in Qt and KDE code myself I feel your pain there.
> >
> > As Aleix said, the main challenge is figuring out how to do that. It might help
> > if we do CI builds for x86 rather than/in addition to ARM? Craft can do that,
> > even if the current CI image might not contain that configuration. That might
> > be easier to execute in the Android emulator then, which presumably is how we
> > would run tests on the CI?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Volker
> >
>
> > It might help if we do CI builds for x86 rather than/in addition to ARM?
>
> Yes, I think it will be wise to have x86 image since the metrics will be more
> realistic than emulation of ARM on x86.
>
> > Craft can do that, even if the current CI image might not contain that>
> > configuration.
>
> You mean Craft can build x86 images or it can build _tests_? (which will make me
> jump to try it :) )

Building tests is easy, running them is the hard part as they're weird
.so files.
Would we have to turn them all into apks? If that's what it needs
(which wouldn't be entirely weird), we will need to do some work on
it.

Aleix