Great, I shall be following developments and hopefully I will get some time to help out/try out some Python based alternatives.
On 7 June 2013 10:00, Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebot...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Thanks so-much for all the feedback on the Regression Testing thread - I > think we can easily conclude that everyone feels it's a good idea. > > Secondly, I think it's also safe to conclude that people wish to > regression test the UI as well as the WorkerFunctions. > > I really liked Frank's idea of macro recording for the test suite. It > seems like a really neat way of writing tests - it just depends what we're > looking to test because the test needs some sort of output that we can > check. > > I think the next stage for introducing a Regression Testing suite is to > start a new branch, and start experimenting. > > I will start by using the CTest & the Boost Test library (Handy that we > now have all the boost headers in place BTW!) > > Boost Test: > http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/libs/test/doc/html/index.html > > If anyone wants, they could set-up a separate branch to test other ideas > for a regression test suite. It may be that both UI and Worker Function > testing use different methods to run and evaluate the outcome of tests. > > Nothing will happen too quick, but at least we know we're heading towards > having regression testing. For the moment, I am still working on the > python-a-mingw-us installer and ultimately Windows Python scripting. I > should be committing that soon. > > Best Regards, Brian. > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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