Unit Testing

[John Ralls]

I've written a fairly extensive change to manage database version changes, and I'd like to add unit tests for the new functions before I commit it. Longer-term, of course, I'd like to have full unit test coverage of the non-gui parts of Gnucash before we start on the major surgery we've been discussing the last couple of weeks.

The issue is what framework to use? GLib from 2.16 (supported by everything stable except RHEL 5 and its derivatives, so I don't feel any remorse about using it in 2.4 before we branch it) provides a serviceable, though primitive, framework that we can introduce without adding a dependency, and it integrates nicely with automake. It would, however, increase our dependency on GLib and it lacks the automatic registration of test cases and suites afforded by more sophisticated frameworks.

Any comments?

Regards,
John Ralls