Hi, It sounds cool, count me in. :)
With regards, Daniel 2012/2/18 Markus Mohrhard <markus.mohrh...@googlemail.com>: > Hello Daniel, > >> It is, :) > > Great! > >> but i don't understand something. >> If it is about creating a child class then why is that we have to have >> not only virtual methods? >> > > We don't want to create a child class but replace a class with another > class having exactly the same interface. This would allow us to break > dependencies during testing and make it possible that we don't need to > start a whole Libreoffice instance for tests. > > There is first the ieda Cedric and I had in Brussels that we should > create stubs for some central sw classes and monitor the input into > them during file loading. This idea would make it much more easy to > test that the content is imported correctly. We have nice concepts for > such tests in calc and to some degree in impress/draw but we are > missing one for writer. > > And then there is another great opportunity that it would make it > possible to write real unit tests. I hope that with this script it > might be possible to break nearly all dependencies and bring a class > under test control. My idea for this is that every time you need to > mock a class you create a test class with the same interface but with > all methods virtual and returning default values. If you now need a > special value for a class you can easily create a subclass overriding > just one method. > > I know that both concepts are still in an early stage and we don't yet > know if they work or good but we will not know without trying. > > Regards, > Markus _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
