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