Re: Looking for unit tests written for GNOME 2 back in 2004

Owen Taylor via desktop-devel-list <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Mar 2021 09:20:52 -0400
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On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 9:12 AM Owen Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Perhaps:
>
>  https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gtkvts
>
> These were contributed by Sun when they got involved with GNOME, and
> were later used in the LSB test framework.
>
> I have to say that these tests, while very extensive, were not
> developed together with the GTK+ code base, so they tended to test the
> API at a superficial level, rather than trying to ensure correct
> functionality of the library. They also will have little relevance to
> current versions of GNOME.

Realized this sounds wrong - of course they tried to ensure the
correct functionality of the library - and they did find bugs and
regressions. What I meant was that because they were separately
developed, the GTK+ maintainers weren't actively contributing test
cases for new functionality, for tricky corner cases, or when
regressions were found.

Regards,
Owen