From: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: General suggestion: Unit tests for ConText
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:03:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311012212.4760.19.camel@mattotaupa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110718195148.4fa6e92f@freenet.de>
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Dear Peter,
Am Montag, den 18.07.2011, 19:51 +0200 schrieb Peter Schorsch:
[…]
> I realize that they have the same functionality like unit-tests -
> just instead of comparing classes and variables - a pdf-output is
> visually compared.
>
> So I like to suggest to introduce unit tests for context. It would
>
> a) increase the quality of context as it makes the
> testing easier for the developer
>
> b) it also would be a great source of minihowtos for learning
> context.
>
> Before I write my technical ideas about this I would like to know what
> are you thinking about this idea?
not being a developer I like that idea very much.
Could the PDF output be converted to a picture and some routine be used
to determine a difference between the template picture and the created
one?
Thanks,
Paul
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-18 17:51 Peter Schorsch
2011-07-18 18:03 ` Paul Menzel [this message]
2011-07-18 23:20 ` Hans Hagen
2011-07-19 10:30 ` Cecil Westerhof
2011-07-19 10:28 ` Cecil Westerhof
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