On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > Would you like to set up a (long-overdue) test framework for info? I'm > guessing that with --dribble, --strict-node-location, and other options, > it should be possible to run tests in batch.
I will look into it. Automatic testing of a (real-time) user interface has difficulties, of course. There are possibilities (recording and playing back keystrokes, screen scraping or reading output of program (terminal control sequences)), but you have to take care that the test framework is not as complicated and error-prone as the program being tested. There can probably be a simple test framework with incomplete coverage in some areas, which would still be useful.
