Test suite

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Test suite

Rich-Harris opened this issue 9 years ago · comments

Rich Harris commented 9 years ago

I have no idea what a good strategy for testing a library like this looks like...

David Dahl · Answer 1 · Tue May 05 2015 08:13:52 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

You should perhaps try out "reftests": https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Creating_reftest-based_unit_tests

All of Gecko's CSS is tested this way

Rich Harris · Answer 2 · Tue May 05 2015 08:49:24 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. Could definitely come in handy. Reading around a bit though, reftests sound a bit hairy - lack of precise timing control, inconsistent approach to fuzzy matching... I'm inclined to put it on the 'one day' pile :)

In the meantime, I should probably close this issue - earlier today I added a basic test.html file (source), which enables visual verification in any browser. Manual testing is a PITA but realistically I think it's the only option for now.