[OpenLayers-Dev] manual acceptance tests

[Eric Lemoine]

On Nov 9, 2007 5:50 PM, Tim Schaub <tschaub at openplans.org> wrote:
> Hey-
>
> Our automated tests are a mix of acceptance and unit tests.  These are
> nice (because they are automated), but we need more (manual) acceptance
> tests to fully test things like the renderers.
>
> Instead of scattering manual acceptance tests in the examples directory,
> I'd like to have an "acceptance" directory in our "tests" directory (or
> "manual" if that makes more sense to folks).  This would make it clear
> for developers what acceptance tests needed to be run manually, and
> would make it less confusing to users who poke around the examples
> directory and stumble into the weird examples that are actually tests
> (speaking for myself here).
>
> Anyone opposed?  Or got a better idea?
>
> Barring feedback, I think I'll make such a change on Monday.  (This will
> only involve adding a directory to the tests directory and starting to
> compile regular manual acceptance tests there.)

Tim,

As you see it, would these acceptance tests need to be run before
commit? Would they be part of the commit process?

--
Eric