[dev] improved unit testing (was: [commits] Horde branch master updated. f174f08002872dab2019bcca58175749f598bb6a)

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch at intra2net.com>:

> On 03/03/2014 08:36 PM, Michael J Rubinsky wrote:
>>
>> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Really need to find a way to unit test this kind of stuff,  
>>> although it pretty much means I need to write an entire mockup of  
>>> an IMAP server which is very annoying.
>>
>> Exactly the problem I have with the activesync unit tests as well :)
>
> if it helps, we are currently developing a test suite
> based upon autotest[1]. Right now it's of no real value
> to the horde project since it's still too closely tied to
> our (German) distribution.
>
> But it already tests creation of mails, folders, events/contacts/xxx
> moving events/task/notes/contacts - all using a Kolab backend.
> All these tests are done for the dynamic view, basic view and  
> smartphone view.
> Even sharing calendars, addressbooks or import/export of "items".
> Or sending large attachments with imp, saving the
> recieved attachment and then do a md5 comparsion of the file :)
>
> We plan on adding automatic ActiveSync testing via the Android SDK ;)
>
> The core of the test suite is an OpenCV based tool for
> computer vision aided automation, it's also "not public" yet
> since we are still polishing it:
> http://developer.intra2net.com/git/?p=guibender;a=summary
> (it contains some clever combination of feature based
>  and "template" based image recognition. I spare you the details.)
>
> The long term goal is to provide something that works on
> horde git / Fedora XX and "donate" it to the horde project.
> But I guess we are at least one year away from that :(
>
> If anyone is interested, I can provide a .webm video
> showing the automatic firefox <-> horde interaction.

Sounds really cool, although it appears to be more particular to  
testing the actual UI.

For framework libraries, PHPUnit is fine.  It's just structuring the  
code to allow for reasonable testing.

michael
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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]