On Friday 7. December 2012 16.55.41 Thiago Macieira wrote: > On sexta-feira, 7 de dezembro de 2012 11.04.27, Samuel Rødal wrote: > > In the end, maybe we could even use this for a subset of the tests in > > the CI system. In my opinion, with the current platform abstraction > > layer we have in place in QtGui, it's unnecessary for most of the > > widgets tests to actually test the entire windowing system stack. > > QWidget is now implemented on top of QWindow and QBackingStore in QtGui, > > so most of the testing of the platform plugins and windowing system > > integration instead of the actual Qt code should be done there. > > I agree in theory, provided that the tests that do stress out the > integration are close to complete testing. In practice, there's no way to > tell whether the testing is enough, so I'd rather we keep full testing, > whether redundant or not, unless we have a compelling reason not to.
I think that "being able to run all tests on a desktop without focus issues" + "reducing test time execution from 8,5 to 2 minutes" = "a compelling reason". Cheers, Jędrek _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
