Re: Looking for unit tests written for GNOME 2 back in 2004
Tejas Sanap via desktop-devel-list <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:34:35 +0530
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Hi Owen, Thank you for your response. I understand. :) -- Tejas Sanap https://whereistejas.github.io (whereistejas on Freenode) On Tue, 23 Mar, 2021, 6:51 pm Owen Taylor, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list