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Emmanuele Bassi 0b4899ef23 tests: Clean up interactive test build 
The build for interactive tests creates symbolic links for the data
under tests/data; it also uses symbolic links for creating "binaries"
for each interactive test. This is less than ideal, though.

Instead, the tests should build a path to the data files by using
a pre-processor define like TESTS_DATADIR; both g_build_filename() and
pre-processor string concatenation can be used to generate a valid
file name with the full path to the files.

The build system should also create wrapper scripts, just like we
do inside the conformance test suite, to be able to launch single
tests.
2009-11-05 17:47:26 +00:00
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conform script: Allow parsing child properties 2009-11-04 16:50:35 +00:00
data script: Allow parsing child properties 2009-11-04 16:50:35 +00:00
interactive tests: Clean up interactive test build 2009-11-05 17:47:26 +00:00
micro-bench Intial Re-layout of the Cogl source code and introduction of a Cogl Winsys 2009-10-16 18:58:50 +01:00
tools Intial Re-layout of the Cogl source code and introduction of a Cogl Winsys 2009-10-16 18:58:50 +01:00
.gitignore [gitignore] Ignore new test-color-hls-roundtrip test 2009-08-03 14:25:08 +01:00
Makefile.am 2008-11-17 Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com> 2008-11-18 09:50:03 +00:00
README [docs] Fix typos and remove mentions of SVN 2009-07-12 01:38:40 +01:00

README 

Outline of test categories:

The conform/ tests should be non-interactive unit-tests that verify a single feature is behaving as documented. See conform/ADDING_NEW_TESTS for more details.

The micro-bench/ tests should be focused perfomance test, ideally testing a single metric. Please never forget that these tests are synthetec and if you are using them then you understand what metric is being tested. They probably don't reflect any real world application loads and the intention is that you use these tests once you have already determined the crux of your problem and need focused feedback that your changes are indeed improving matters. There is no exit status requirements for these tests, but they should give clear feedback as to their performance. If the framerate is the feedback metric, then the test should forcibly enable FPS debugging.

The interactive/ tests are any tests whos status can not be determined without a user looking at some visual output, or providing some manual input etc. This covers most of the original Clutter tests. Ideally some of these tests will be migrated into the conformance/ directory so they can be used in automated nightly tests.

Other notes:
All tests should ideally include a detailed description in the source explaining exactly what the test is for, how the test was designed to work, and possibly a rationale for the approach taken for testing.