Dan,
In my experience, you need both kinds of testing. The automated tests
are best suited for regression testing, making sure you didn't break
something that worked before. Also, as you find bugs, you write tests
that verify the bug, helping the programmer reproduce the problem, and
making sure it's been fixed when the programmer submits the patch. Also,
automated testing is great for a continuous integration setup. Every
time a programmer checks in a module, you kick off a build that runs all
your tests as it builds the distribution. Then it sends out an automated
message with the results.
One of the tools I'm looking at, Jameleon, allows you to organize your
tests functionally. Once you've got the basic tests encoded, almost
anyone can write test cases without knowing much programming. It also
allows for reuse of a lot of the testing code, which reduces the
maintenance required. (Maintenance of test cases is one of the biggest
problems.) I'm hoping it will help us keep this job manageable.
The biggest problem we face is that we don't have many testers. I'm
hoping that if I put together a reasonable test infrastructure, we might
be able to recruit a few more.
Ray
Dan Polansky wrote:
Hello Ray,
thank you for this kind of testing. I think it is very useful, much
more so than a search for automatic testing tools, which would never
discover the kind of bugs you have found. Admittedly, I have no
experience with automated GUI tests; I am quite sceptical of them
based on what I have heard from experienced people.
Dan
On 8/27/07, *Ray Benjamin* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Did some quick testing on latest code. Most of what I've found is
minor and cosmetic. One thing that does concern me, is that the
Preferences dialog doesn't work anymore. Is this something that is
happening only on my machine?
1) Selecting Tools -> Preferences, does nothing.
2) There is no way to see what Physical Style a node is set to.
(As a side note, why use the term Physical Style, when most people
are probably familiar with the term style from CSS stylesheets and
word processors? Just curious.)
3) In Manage Patterns ..., the column that holds the name of the
physical style/pattern, is too narrow for many of the names and
can't be resized.
4) Why use the term /Manage Patterns .../ for managing /Physical
Styles/?
5) No way to add or remove Physical Style in the Manage Patterns
dialog. (Also, might be good to allow user to create a
pattern/style based on the selected node. But that's probably an
enhancement for later.)
6) While Rich Formatting and Plain Text might do something, it
isn't obvious that they do anything, and nothing happens when I
use them. There should be some feedback to the user.
7) Wouldn't it be clearer to use the term /Node Text Color/ or
/Node Foreground Color,/ rather than /Node Color/?
8) There should be some indication when a node has Blended Color.
There should be a way to remove the blended color. If a node
doesn't have colors that can be blended, the menu choice should be
grayed out.
Ray
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