[webkit-dev] testing changes to UString/String

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Jan 12, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Geoffrey Garen wrote:

> Hi Dave.
>
> We tend to write unit tests in HTML or JavaScript. If it's possible  
> to trigger all of the relevant test conditions in HTML or  
> JavaScript, I'd recommend that.
>
> The next best thing to do is to write a C++ test function, add it to  
> WebKitTools/DumpRenderTree, and invoke it during DumpRenderTree's  
> initialization. This solution is not as good because you can't run  
> it inside a web browser, and a failure in one test will cause all  
> unit tests to appear to fail.
>
> As a last resort, you could create a new build target specifically  
> for your unit test. This solution is not as good because most WebKit  
> developers will not run your test as a part of their daily  
> development.

We've discussed the possibility of adopting a C++ unit testing  
framework in the past. String and UString are cases where this kind of  
approach would really shine. It would also be great for basic data  
structure classes like Vector and HashMap. We haven't made much  
progress on this front, although Eric Seidel made a preliminary patch  
a while back to adopt the same unit test framework that Chrome uses,  
although it got hung up on build issues.

Regards,
Maciej