unit test / run test in xfce code (here clipman)?

[Alex]

Hi Sylvain,

I have not much idea of clipman, nor do I know much about
default-structures for tests (afaik most xfce components dont have tests)

Though it might be relevant to your investigations that "make check" in
the test-folder generated some binaries which can be executed.

It's not clear to me what "secure item feature" is .. is there an open
issue for it ?

Cheers,
Alex

Am 26.12.21 um 08:28 schrieb Sylvain Viart:
> Hi,
>
> I've produced a consequent code modification in clipman to add secure
> item feature
> <https://gitlab.xfce.org/Sylvain/xfce4-clipman-plugin/-/tree/dev-refactor-indexes>.
> I now test it personally at full time since September 2021, it's
> useful and doesn't crash.
>
> I would like to add test, or more tests, because there's a tests folder.
> But I'm not sure how it should be done, nor how to automate test.
>
> I didn't find Makefile target like: make test
>
> Could you explain me how you add test to the code structure?
>
> What I already get, which doesn't explain about unit-testing strategy.
>
> https://wiki.xfce.org/dev/howto/panel_plugins#testing_and_releasing_the_plugin
> <https://wiki.xfce.org/dev/howto/panel_plugins#testing_and_releasing_the_plugin>
>
>
>
> Basically I produced a new data structure to handle index of element,
> an indexed double linked list:
>
> index:   [   0     ,       1   ,       2   ]
>              |             |           |
> list:        |             |           |
>              |             |           |
>              |             | |
> head ->   [item1] <=>  [item2] <=> [item3]
>
> Which allow me to access any element by id, and I also maintain a
> circular indexes, reusing freed index and clipman history resizing.
> I would like to refactor the code and extract the data structure from
> the history and to keep it under tests, because pointer and indexes
> already gave me some strong
> debugging sessions. So I learned remote debugging 😁
>
> Do you have some rules about testing to follow, or could I introduce
> any Makefile target I want?
> Do you have to project example to give me that introduces testing in
> its code base? So I could borrow the code structure.
>
> Happy Christmas code hacking,
> Sylvain.
>