Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 03:33:22PM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote: > >> I think we have to distinguish several test methods: >> >> a) automatic export tests with lots of "real life" documents (manuals, >> templates, examples) >> >> b) functional tests: import/export of a complete test document and >> comparing >> it to the expected output >> >> c) unit tests: test of certain features or sub-units. >> >> Unit tests (c) are currently not implemented, AFAIK.
We have some, but they are not really documented. See the test subdirectories in src/ and below. > There has been some little talk of implementing them but nothing in the > end was done. From what I understand, it would be a huge change and it > wasn't clear whether it was worth the effort and if everyone would use > the tests. Unit tests are almost always worth the effort. When I implement one, it does almost always find a bug right away. See also the check_lstrings failure Vincent reported and http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9799. Having these bugs found by users is a much worse alternative. The problem we have with unit tests is that we do not have a good infrastructure: It is too much overhead to add one. But once this is improved, it would be really worth it to add lots of unit tests. Georg
