Re: Test suite

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 06:36:07PM +0100, Dumas Patrice wrote:
> I would be willing to help building up a test suite too. 

great!  That would be very nice.
(As I understand it, you are the only one willing to work on it;
besides Karl, who obviously doesn't have much time.)

I won't have time to help with this in the upcoming several months.

> I believe things should be done more systematically
> with a better infrastructure in texinfo, but I don't know 
> anything about test infrastructure nor where guidelines are.

Karl has mentioned that he has some tests for makeinfo in
texinfo/makeinfo/tests ; this test suite is driven by automake,
see Makefile.am in that directory.

The documentation for this is in
        info '(automake)Tests'

(I use automake 1.7d, a beta for 1.8; current beta is 1.7f.)

I beleive many GNU packages have test suites.  I cannot tell which
of them are best up-to-date examples of how should automake test
suites be done.

Hope this helps.  We'd be glad to answer any question.
If you really find time to make a good testing infrastructure for
texinfo, it would be very nice and very useful.

Stepan