Re: Automate Emacs UI testing? (was: Move to a cadence release model?)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: John Wiegley <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 09:44:11 -0800
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> >>>>> Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > As Emacs has no strong test suite (automatic testing of UI is hard, so no
> > cure for this on sight) neither has many resources for steady manual testing
> > and bug-fixing, I'm afraid that switching to the cadence model would
> > deteriorate the quality of releases.
> 
> Web developers have some pretty awesome tools for driving a UI and observing
> the resulting behavior. I wonder what it would take to have a framework like
> that for Emacs...

UI is only one issue.  The more important issue, IMO, is poor coverage
of the test suite in general.  Many packages and primitives have no
tests at all.