PROPOSAL (test suite design)

[Joost van Baal]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:53:24AM +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote:
> 
> It would be good to have a test suite. This could automate testing on 
> non-development platforms.
> 
> The suite should consist of a script that calls other scripts.
> Sort of like the report system Francis is working on, but then without
> the XML system around it...
> 
> It test should return a exit code denoting the result of the test...
> The base script detects this and responds to the user...
> 
> A test itself, runs a part of the software as if it was installed,

Why not letting the user install lire (e.g. with --prefix=/tmp/test)
and run the tests from that installed system?  This would be much
easier.  I don't see what running directly from the tarball gains.

What tests are you suggesting?  Processing a small logfile, and
typesetting reports from this in various formats?

Bye,

Joost


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