[Chandler-dev] Reviving the DESKTOP Test Automation Project

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 08:23 AM 9/6/2007 -0700, Grant Baillie wrote:

>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?

Not in the functional tests, no.  However, per your suggestion (in 
email a week or two ago), I assume the presentation layer code would 
be unit tested with wx mocks.