On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:36:57PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > 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.
Note that Vincent has already done some work on this. See: https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=CAO7dr0gJu1hz%2Bmg7c1N74DH-bqiEAaY0tkS4wK%2BFUEEMmFBFSw%40mail.gmail.com or for a quick link: http://git.lyx.org/?p=developers/vfr/lyx.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/tests Scott
