Re: Testing/Working on PyUNO?

On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 12:02 +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> So, what can we do here?  How about an additional code module
> dedicated 
> to subsequentchecks written in Python, which, while serving the
> useful 
> purpose of testing specific application functionality (and in which
> role 
> they may deliberately duplicate existing "native" tests), are meant
> more 
> as a means to improve the PyUNO situation.
>
> The idea would be that Kevin (and others) would fill this with PyUNO 
> coding scenarios that cross their mind, discover errors in the PyUNO 
> infrastructure, ideally distill tests for those specific errors out
> of 
> the more general tests (that could then even go into more specific
> code 
> modules like pyuno or testtools), and eventually prune test snippets 
> again that are no longer useful.

I have no objection here.  If the test writters are careful enough to
ensure that the tests are designed to catch the errors in the Python UNO
layer, and not cover or insist on testing the core functionality that
are not really Python specific, then I don't see any downside.

And I would like such tests to be run either independent of the build,
or a part of top level "make check", much like how the current Java UNO
API tests run.