On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > Hi, > > I am playing around with using the new glib testing utilities for > xesam-glib and I am wondering if there is any smart way to integrate > tests with a GMainLoop. > > The situation is that I need to test a bunch of async dbus > communications and for that I need a running GMainLoop. For now I have > a mainloop instantiated in my fixture and then start and exit the loop > in each test function. It seems a bit awkward to do it like this > because it introduces some boilerplatish code in each test case.
that's what the fixture functions are for, to take over common builerplate parts of test functions. > So my question: Is there a Smart (TM) way to do this or can we add > something to gtestutils to make this easy peasy? I suspect that it > might not be that uncommon since many apps/libs revolve around a > GMainLoop. it's not clear to me what exactly you'd like to add to the test framework (since main loops can easily be created/destroyed in fixture functions). is there any concrete API to add you have in mind? > Cheers, > Mikkel --- ciaoTJ _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
