Re: Tests and linting not coupled to one file

[Stefan Kangas]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> That's a fair point.  Likely they would not be aware of "test/misc" at
>> first.  OTOH we could document it in "test/file-organization.org".
>>
>> Here's three scenarios where adding a test to the existing files might
>> not make sense:
>
> [...]
>
>> That said, if we can find a way to shoe-horn the stuff we need into the
>> existing test suite without it being overly ugly, it's perfectly fine by
>> me.  Perhaps that would be less ugly than adding a new "test/misc"
>> directory.
>
> There's certainly something to be said for consistency here: If we're
> looking for a test of something in foo.el, we look in
> lisp/foo-tests.el.  And as you point out, cross-cutting linter stuff
> doesn't really fit into that scheme at all.
>
> So upon further consideration, I agree with you that adding a test/misc
> directory would be better in the long term.

(That was in September.)

How does the attached patch look?  It runs all custom tests
automatically - all of them marked as expensive, and two of them marked
as expected to fail.  We will probably want to fix up the failing tests
at some point, too.

0001-Run-admin-cus-tests.el-tests-from-test-suite.patch
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