Re: [E-devel] Announce: Wayland Functional Integration Test Suite

[Tom Hacohen <tom hacohen samsung com>]

On 22/05/13 14:56, Eoff, Ullysses A wrote:
> I wanted to announce that a new open source project called
> "wayland-fits" is now available on 01.org <https://01.org/wayland>.
>
> The Wayland Functional Integration Test Suite (wayland-fits) is a fully
> automated test suite.  Its purpose is to validate the functionality and
> integration between Wayland client software and Wayland server
> software.  It provides a test framework and test suites for multiple
> Wayland-enabled toolkits and the Wayland core.  The test framework
> allows tests to emit input events from the bottom of the software stack.
> That is, [input system]->server->client->toolkit->test-app.  This
> enables full input pipeline validation.  It also includes its own Wayland
> test protocol that enables tests to cross-validate client and server
> states.
>
> Currently there are tests for Wayland Core and Wayland EFL.  And just
> recently, I have started adding tests for Wayland Gtk+ (I'm already
> finding several trivial bugs).  There are plans to start adding tests for
> Wayland Clutter and Wayland Qt, too.  Also, a server-side
> implementation of the wayland-fits protocol is essential for every test
> to execute.  Right now, there is only an implementation for Weston
> included that supports drm, x11, and headless backends (caution: the
> headless backend will only run the software/shm based tests).  It's
> absolutely plausible, however, that there will be implementations for
> other Wayland compositors that have a plugin architecture, too.
>
> I am currently the maintainer of this project with contributions
> coming in from one or two other people on occasion.  I would be
> oh-so-grateful to have more contributors from the enthusiastic Wayland
> community.  So start sending your patches!  I only develop and
> test on Intel hardware and Fedora... so if there are issues on other
> hardware/OS flavors, feel free to submit fixes; tested, of course ;-).
> There is still a lot of Wayland functionality that is not tested by this suite
> and design decisions that could be made...and I could use as much help
> as I can get.  If nothing else, I hope it's a useful test suite for those
> that use it.  It has already detected many regressions and bugs.
>
> The source repository is on github at:
>
> <https://github.com/01org/wayland-fits>
>
> There is more information in the README about contributing, building,
> running, etc...  Also, we can start using the wiki in the github project to
> share more info (and such) as needed.
>
> If you have any questions, feel free to drop me a line.  I generally hang out
> in the #wayland and #wayland-efl IRC channels on freenode as some of
> you already know (nick: uartie).  I am travelling this week so expect a
> delayed response.
>
> Oh, and P.S. the project is written in C++ ;-)


We don't test in EFL, we just assume things work.

--
Tom.