From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: General suggestion: Unit tests for ConText
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:20:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E24BFD9.70908@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110718195148.4fa6e92f@freenet.de>
On 18-7-2011 7:51, Peter Schorsch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> during my work with context I wrote a bunch of fewliners mainly to test
> how to do things. When there change from mkii to mkiv occured many of
> my mini-tests failed and later with the growing of mkiv restartet to
> work - some just without adaption.. some with some adjustment to a new
> syntax.
>
> 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?
fyi: there is an archive with a bunch of tests (mostly mine but I
occasionally add -adapted- samples from the list):
http://www.pragma-ade.nl/context/latest/cont-tst.7z
Quite some of these can be used for testing, some can also serve as
examples of usage. I have a script that can process them and keep track
of changes at a rough pixel level but simply have no time to keep up
with that.
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-18 23:20 UTC|newest]
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
2011-07-18 23:20 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2011-07-19 10:30 ` Cecil Westerhof
2011-07-19 10:28 ` Cecil Westerhof
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