Re: Testing framework

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I mean to say that as Alexei have suggested us to run it directly,
> by not using Xvfb and capturing the screenshot by pressing simply
> [P], that is giving us the .png file saved in same directory.  I
> think this is what you use to test it in a manual way.

Ah, ok, understood.  Of course, this is just a temporary measure so
that you can make it work in case Xvfb is missing.

> my question is that as the goal is to have a CI script for the
> gitlab instance of 'freetype.org' thats gets called automatically
> and will process the whole thing of checking graphical difference.

IMHO, it would be helpful to find a solution that is as
platform-agnostic as possible.  However, this is not a prerequisite,
since in the CI setup you can usually select an OS.  If the test
comparisons only work under Linux (because it's the simplest solution,
the quickest, etc.), so be it.

> So do we need to follow up with the same technique that is by
> running it directly and capturing screenshots manually all the time
> or we need to have some changes in xvfbRunAndScreenShot itself to
> make it more efficient, or do we need to swap out the xvfb commands
> with some other taking xvfb out of the way..

Whatever fits best.  Doing this investigation is part of the GSoC
project :-)


    Werner