Regression tests?

Dan Kegel dank@alumni.caltech.edu
Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:18:00 -0800


Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
> 
> Dan Kegel writes:
>  > Could something similar be done for gnucash?  Would it help
>  > make crash bugs less likely?
> 
> One of the problems with that is that the majority of crashes seem to
> come from GUI code.  Writing  test scripts for a GUI is rather more
> difficult than writing them for server code.
> 
> It's probably something that gnome is going to have to look at, though
> - a testing framework to allow scripts to operate GUI's would not be a
> bad thing.

That's interesting.  So the crashes are usually in the C that 
handles the GUI, not in the C that handles the database or any of the Scheme?
And is hand-coded C GUI code less safe than, say, stuff driven by
a file output by libglade?

- Dan