On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:38, Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bruno, > it would of course be great. Check out > http://code.google.com/p/winetricks/source/browse/trunk/tests/winetricks-test > for starters, we could just run that (or a subset of it) daily. > It's fairly reliable, as I ran it manually every week for a while > and weeded out a lot of flaky bits. > > When I get a chance, I'll try integrating that into buildbot. > - Dan > > p.s. As Henri mentioned, it's been on people's minds for years. > The graveyard is littered with previous attempts, e.g. > http://web.archive.org/web/20070209153523/http://www.cxtest.org/ > I think it's important to do the easy part first and not do anything fancy.
You can see appinstall here: http://code.google.com/p/winezeug/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fappinstall which used a shell script to automate testing with AutoHotKey (checking for expected crashes was supported as well). Automated app testing is very useful, but at the others pointed out, it's quite a pain to get right and have it be reliable. That said, simply running an application and checking for a crash isn't that difficult, it's the more tedious testing of menus/input that get really nasty. And installation of apps that don't have a silent option is also annoying.. Good luck! Feel free to contact me privately if needed. -- -Austin
