Hi,

If I want to start implementing the LCL-fpGUI widgetset, is there a test process or automated or manual list of tests I could follow to see where there are still issues? Maybe a set of test projects testing all properties of each component somewhere?

If not, how do you guys know what works and what doesn't between all the various LCL-xxx widgetsets? Plus how consistent applications behave between widgetsets (thinking in line of order of events being fired etc.)?

Regards,
- Graeme -

You could start with the examples, the testall example was useful when the win32 widget set was written.

Vincent

One of the testing facility may be ability of script processing . Assume a program has been developed , and it is necessary to test it exhaustively .

By clicking every possible point in the input interface is nearly very difficult and time consuming . Instead of doing that , incorporating a script application facility may help very much .

Sometimes key-press macro applicability may be sufficient , but personally I do not like key-press macros because they are cryptic ( to understand what they are doing , to modify them is difficult ) .

Scripts may be prepared in such a way that they exercises every part of the program in any combination sequence .

Main logic will be as follows : Script processing part will scan a script file and apply statements written in them by using processing parts of the program . If script can be completed successfully it may be said that the program is working correctly on this script . When the scripts are a representative sample of user applications and they are completed successfully , the same will be possible for the users also .

To my knowledge there is no such a scripting facility in Lazarus Components incorporated into Lazarus IDE . As an example fpmake may be used as a part .

(1)
A script starts by generating a new project , designs some forms , saves them , compiles them .

(2)
The compiled program starts a script and tries to complete it .

It may be said that a debugger is doing the similar tasks . In all of my life I used a debugger only first and then last time at least 25 years ago ( means I can not say anything about that ) .

Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk

Vincent Snijders wrote

You could start with the examples, the testall example was useful when the win32 widget set was written.

Thanks Vincent, I'll take a guess after a while the IDE itself can serve as a test. At least there I will know how it used to work and look with LCL-GTK2 widgetset.

Regards,
- Graeme -