kde4support: kstandarddirs_unittest fix
David Faure
faure at kde.org
Mon Dec 23 12:52:15 UTC 2013
On Monday 23 December 2013 11:43:39 Alex Merry wrote:
> On 23/12/13 08:36, David Faure wrote:
> > Still, replacing tests that pass means introducing the risk that we're not
> > testing for the same thing anymore. But if you're fully convinced, go
> > ahead. I wouldn't have rewritten these, but I don't want to veto the
> > change.
> >
> > In fact my thinking when writing this test was: the whole point of
> > kstandarddirs is to find installed files. As soon as we test something
> > else, we lose the guarantee that it's indeed finding what the user just
> > installed.... I admit that this was a "setup test" in addition to being a
> > "unit test" though, and build.kde.org has a bit of a strange setup :)
>
> I see your point; given that this is only kde4support, I'll go for the
> less invasive route of fixing the logic that determines when it should
> skip the tests (so it skips when kde4support is not installed yet).
>
> Either way, the tests will fail is KDEDIRS is not set correctly; I think
> the right approach there is to do a bit of a sanity check in
> initTestCase() and bail (with either QSKIP or QFAIL) if it is either
> empty or does not contain at least the install directory.
Or we can just set it with a qputenv? ;)
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