Re: General suggestion: Unit tests for ConText

[Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com>]

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2011/7/18 Peter Schorsch <tralalas@freenet.de>

> 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?
>

I think it is a great idea.

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Cecil Westerhof

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