Testing reports

[Colin Law]

On 27 March 2012 09:57, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> 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?

Yes, Colin Law (me) and Colin Scott.  I try and remember to sign as
Colin L on this list (as CS pre-dates me here) but sometimes forget.

Colin L.