[tex-live] General test suite for TeX-Live

[Uwe Ziegenhagen]

I have a few ideas, let me get back to You later today 

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Am 19.06.2016 um 10:17 schrieb Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>:

>> It is certainly impossible to create a complete test suite that would
>> catch any problem one could run into.
>> 
>> But that doesn't mean (and shouldn't be an excuse) that a group of
>> volunteers couldn't come up with a "small" test suite to cover at
> 
> For me the "one big test file" was anyway never of interest.
> 
> Of course we cannot check all code path in a sty file in an automated
> way - this must be left for the author.
> 
> What I want is
> * automated testing of simple load functionality
> * provide infrastructure (via l3build and maybe some extra infos)
>  for package authros to provide more complete tests that can
>  be part of an automated testing environment for TL
> 
>> I would imagine that such a test suite should be able to raise an
>> alarm during the latest magyar.ldf update (even though I still argue
> 
> Yes, typical case which a simple load test would exhibit.
> 
> Same with many other case. Eg the recent shellesc which should have
> been loadable by plain tex, but wasn't. These things are
> testable in an automated way. We only need to start providing
> a easy to use infra and start writing a few tests.
> 
> ... *only* ...
> 
> Norbert
> 
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