Re: Develop a test framework for checking FreeType's rendering output - GSoC Project

[Werner LEMBERG]

Hello Sarthak,


thanks for your thoughtful e-mail.  I think you've exactly hit the
problems.

> In the last few days, I have come across Freetype's Documentation
> and previous contributions on this project(GSoC), what I have
> observed is
> 
> - Most of the things are already implemented in it, which means we
>   don't need to start anything from scratch we just need to do some
>   quick additions and omissions to the code.

Yep.

> - Coming to the CI segment as I read Greg's work
>   <https://github.com/fundies/freetype2/tree/greg-gsoc/builds> and I
>   can see the azure checks running on Github, we just need to port
>   azure configs he wrote to be compatible with GitLab's CI, as it is
>   commented very well it's not gonna be very hard to do so.

Good to hear!

> - There should be some custom test harness in concurrence with
>   checks for more accurate results.

What exactly do you mean with 'more accurate results'?

> - We can add some better User Interface by using some javascript,
>   Bootstrap (mainly CSS part), and can add some more functionalities
>   or can say features in it.

Yes.

> - We can switch to some better comparison tools as bmpcmp clips
>   generate layers of mouse-over action

Maybe it makes even sense to provide more than a single comparison
tool.


    Werner