Hey list,
As a new contributor, I have no idea how to run or write tests for Emacs, which means I end up testing my patches manually and miss bugs. I could try to learn how Emacs uses tests on my own, but it would benefit future new contributors if we added a section on testing to CONTRIBUTE.
Here is what I would want to see:
- How to write tests, with a pointer to an internal Emacs package that has idiomatic and comprehensive tests.
- How to run tests on the entire tree and on individual files.
- A pointer to an info page on the testing framework/pattern that most internal Emacs packages use.
Would anyone be interested in working on this? cc'ing Stephen Leake because he lead the most recent major changes to CONTRIBUTE.
-samer