Testing reports

[Derek Atkins]

Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> writes:

[snip]
>> Colin, I am sorry that the report formatting changed between 2.2 and
>> 2.4.  Some of this probably happened because of the move from GtkHTML ->
>> WebKit which enabled CSS, and many reports were updated to support CSS
>> instead of the old weird stylesheet stuff.  GnuCash is still in flux,
>> there, and I expect that the swap to WebKit might complete in 2.6 (but
>> I'm not sure).  I think it's unreasonable to assume that a report will
>> *look* the same across all versions and never change across application
>> version changes.  However you are right that if we had a test harness we
>> might have caught reports that failed to report the correct numbers when
>> e.g. accounts were closed.
>>
>> So let's make some forward progress here.  Colin, can you help us get a
>> test harness in place that will test a report for its content?  Clearly
>> it means we would need some test fixtures, and some way to run a report
>> and gleam the HTML output for testing.  Can you help us here?
>
> Which Colin is this addressed to?  If me then I am afraid I have too
> much on at the moment.

I'm a little jet-lagged right now.  Do we have multiple Colins in this
thread?

> Colin L.

-derek

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