-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi list,
my name is Thomas and I'm a software engineer in quality working for Canonical. Our quality team is currently extending the test coverage of Canonical's upstream projects. To this end, we are developing a number of components for providing a unified testing landscape to developers. One of our focus areas is the headless automated testing of applications and components that interact with the X display server. For many testing scenarios, only a dummy X server without any display capabilities is required and we abstracted/integrated start up and tear down of such a configuration within a Google Test environment that is readily usable by developers (see [1]). Google Test [2] is a unit testing framework tailored towards C and C++. It is lightweight and provides a decent set of functionality for writing unit tests: * Automatic test registration: Tests are automatically discovered and recognized. That is, no manual maintenance for executing tests is required. * An extensive set of assertion macros is provided. * The XML output is compatible with JUnit's XML dialect and can be integrated easily with continuous integration systems (e.g. Jenkins [3]). * Support for custom test fixtures that unify test setup and cleanup procedures, thus avoiding boiler plate code within the actual test. * Support for custom test environments for bundling problem specific setup and cleanup routines. Our extension to Google Test defines a custom test environment and a custom test fixture that take care of starting up and tearing down a dummy xserver environment (environment.h) as well as opening up a display connection (test.h). Moreover, a custom main is included within our extension that extends Google Test's main and makes sure that our dummy X server testing environment is known to the whole test suite. Please see [4] for a usage scenario within utouch-frame and [5] for xorg-gtest's doxygen documentation. As we think that this kind of unified testing architecture might be of interest to a wider developer audience, we would like to bring it to your attention by this mail. The project is currently hosted in cndougla's freedesktop.org place, but we feel a better home would be on freedesktop.org. It looks like a good landing spot would be in xorg/test on the git.freedesktop.org page. Is there a formal process for proposing projects, or should we just create a repository there? Of course, your feedback is highly appreciated. Kind regards, Thomas [1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~cndougla/xorg-gtest/ [2] http://code.google.com/p/googletest/ [3] http://jenkins-ci.org/ [4] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~utouch-team/utouch-frame/trunk/view/head:/test/x11/recording.cpp [5] http://people.freedesktop.org/~cndougla/xorg-gtest -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJO8g6vAAoJEClhAuflZ3WhCpAH/jIBuJqKQS9tSP8YBfvNDSS1 JNQVeLD7KEZq5wD6la0qXWOHeGYQvW632aEU9ZPM3qLPq4zTPI7PvaRULSR/w1Dk 1XohweAM1iCOl5IYe7GAwUpoMHiRVTGW9hHaHxBz6NDMOd0OxymuSFvETG0v6lYU M9MyTGNvfXnRDq84GhRVXY+qZhXz0waEGXSwdvAg22LT+4mJdaqaN3SaQx9gPi7W tUr+3xOaj8n8GqI0jcTWls/+QplAd1gIpD9NJFGI7oISfqEZTDc0Rmot8Q6zK1sF ejTI/RobsIpI+NYwljmBuUSXX2S2Had36qJrQY1P4hqpVtpjEzn9PzaCs/heqUU= =P6J9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel