Testing KTp

[Daniele E. Domenichelli]

On 19/09/12 17:09, George Kiagiadakis wrote:
> And imho, we should gradually turn most of these tasks to automatic
> unit tests. It is not that hard and will save us a lot of trouble.
> 
> And here comes into play telepathy-parrot, the echo bot - unit testing
> framework that I am writing, which I started writing exactly for this
> purpose ;) tp-parrot is meant to automate the process of starting
> temporary telepathy sessions & optionally a temporary prosody
> instance, setting up accounts, running clients and setting up certain
> environment conditions for those clients (ex, starting channels). This
> can be useful for manual testing of handlers (call ui, text ui), but
> it can also become useful for automatic testing of several components.
> What needs to be done, however, is to turn components into (static)
> libraries so that they can be accessed from QtTest-based unit tests.
> QtTest can do wonders with UIs, it can simulate mouse clicks, key
> presses, etc, but it needs access to the widget pointers where the
> events should go. Ok, this may not be able to test everything, but
> still many things can be tested that way. In the particular case of
> ktp-send-file, for example, I believe it should be possible to
> automate it fully.

That would be _really_ cool (d_ed: _underlined_, not /italics/).
ktp-send-file, looks like a good component to start with, since it is
very small, and doesn't have many functions to test, we could all learn
a lot from it ;)


Daniele