On Saturday 21 November 2009 22:06:17 Sam Pattuzzi wrote: > On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 20:48 +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > So how exactly does this plugin test plugins? And how does it check if > > an > > action has the required result? > > Okay, not a plugin because you can only run one at a time. However, if > it was some kind of background process like the database updating? If > there where some hooks in the interface system for emulating key presses > and then more hooks for checking the output in a machine readable way. > I'm not saying it is something trivial to implement but test driven > development seems an excellent way of preventing regressions.
This would be: a) Hugely complex b) Liable to change results c) A maintenance nightmare d) Need to be able to be completely disabled for normal Rockbox e) etc etc. Not going to happen. Alex
