[Chandler-dev] Reviving the DESKTOP Test Automation Project

[Grant Baillie]

On 5 Sep, 2007, at 23:32, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

>> If we do keep doing higher level automated tests ( and I imagine we
>> will, hopefully using the new recorded scripts framework ) there is
>> some value in watching them run periodically. Especially if the sole
>> purpose of those tests becomes catching graphical rendering problems
>> and we start automating the application semantics testing at other
>> layers.
>
> Of course.  Note, however, that in this model a functional test is  
> a functional test whether the GUI is hooked up or not.  You could  
> always run them with the GUI hooked up if you wanted to watch.  :)

In practice, there is view-level code that would otherwise not be  
getting any coverage unless you ran some tests with the GUI hooked  
up, no?

--Grant