On Saturday 22 April 2006 05:46, Nathan Summers wrote: > On 4/21/06, Sven Neumann <sven@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > another thing that came to my mind: > > > > - Add a (unit) testing framework and tests to GIMP. > > > > Details are left out for now but the idea is to get more unit tests > > and to make it easier to add and maintain them. But also to have more > > complex test scripts that perform GIMP operation using the PDB. These > > scripts would be run on a set of test images and the results would be > > compared against a set of output images. The test framework should > > also allow to easily test functionality of a certain plug-in. This way > > errors could easily be spotted and it would make changes to plug-ins a > > lot safer. Such tests could also be used as benchmarks to help with > > optimizations. > > > > Should we try to turn this into a more detailed proposal? > > This sounds like an excellent idea. > Hi! I agree this is a good idea. However, in case you didn't notice - I started working on a test suite for GIMP: http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/gimp-test/trunk/ $ svn log -r 1 http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/gimp-test/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r1 | shlomif | 2005-02-18 01:12:32 +0200 (Fri, 18 Feb 2005) | 1 line Creating the Trunk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ The framework for creating such tests is there, including a way to make the random generator seeds predictable. I already wrote a few tests, and it seems to work nicely, but then was distracted. If anyone wishes to help, he could just volunteer some time to write more tests. I am willing to be a mentor for a SoC project that aims to expand this test suite. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish shlomif@xxxxxxxxxxx Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ 95% of the programmers consider 95% of the code they did not write, in the bottom 5%. _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
