Re: test suite in the garden

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

> Am 2005-07-25 um 22:04 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
>
>> It is perhaps a lot of work included, but extending the
>> contextgarden.net in such a way that users could provide test cases
>> which would be typeset with different ConTeXt versions and PNGs
>> compared afterwards ... could make it easier to discover any broken
>> functionality.
>
>
> Oh, another quest for our magic Patrick! ;-)
>
> Let me extend the suggestion, for we miss a ConTeXt test suite for a  
> long time now:
>
> - users send test cases
> - test cases get typeset with the actual ConTeXt and converted to PNG  
> (like inline samples)
> - user "votes" if it looks right, if not adds comment
> - test case gets saved, including PNG, ConTeXt version and vote/comments
> - at next update, all test cases get typeset again, and users can  
> "vote" if it looks still ok or at least the same (perhaps it would be  
> possible to check automatically if the bitmaps are exactly identical)
>
> This does work only for max. 1 page samples, and I don't know if it's  
> within the abilities of our wizard(s)...
> And I guess different users have different opinions what looks  
> "right", but we could check if something changed.

i'd say, go ahead ... you can use the wiki as place to collect those things

Hans 

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