Re: info browser test framework (was Improving standalone info usability)

[Gavin Smith]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:
> Would you like to set up a (long-overdue) test framework for info?  I'm
> guessing that with --dribble, --strict-node-location, and other options,
> it should be possible to run tests in batch.

I will look into it. Automatic testing of a (real-time) user interface
has difficulties, of course. There are possibilities (recording and
playing back keystrokes, screen scraping or reading output of program
(terminal control sequences)), but you have to take care that the test
framework is not as complicated and error-prone as the program being
tested.

There can probably be a simple test framework with incomplete coverage
in some areas, which would still be useful.