Re: Some perspective from the cheap seats...

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> There is VSW5 which is the formal test suite for X11 protocol standards
> compliance.  (This is what vendors have to pass to get the Open Group to
> certify their platform as meeting the "Unix Workstation" brand.)

> It tries every protocol request in a variety of ways and checks for the
> expected answers, including comparing drawing operations against a set of
> standard images to ensure they draw as expected.

> It was previously closed source & expensive, but was made freely available
> a couple of years ago:
> 	http://www.opengroup.org/testing/testsuites/vsw5.html
> 	http://www.opengroup.org/testing/downloads.html

> Depending on what level you've changed in X, you may also want to run the VSM
> test suite with Motif or OpenMotif to see if you've done anything that breaks
> higher level toolkits.

Umm, yes.  But its license should be read very, very carefully before
using it.

Marc.

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