On 2011-01-27, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > I'd like to have a set of automated tests for: > -) searching stuff in a number of cases (e.g., various combinations of > options from the GUI) for a few simple test .lyx files; > -) emulating the hit of the "Find Next" button by the user and checking > whether the selected text matches with what should be found: this is the > key point, I don't want to check merely whether I get a crash or not, > but I'd like to extract some information from the program (e.g., cursor > position, selection begin and end, perhaps latex export of parts of the > text) and compare them with their pre-computed expected values; > -) stressing searching and replacing under various borderline conditions.
The lyx server can be used to execute any LFUN. Some years (and LyX versions) ago, I wrote an object-oriented Python interface package which should be very helpful (if your test scripts are in Python) and can be found under http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/PyClient Günter
