On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 06:09:13PM +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
On Sun, 2016-06-12 at 18:33 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Hi all!
Do you think it would be a good idea to make Inkscape's test suite more comprehensive by making sure some (= as many as we can) input SVGs result in the same bitmap images after being rendered by --export-png? It won't be too hard to implement, and may prevent regressions.
We already have a set of image based tests. At one point it was run automatically but maintaining it was a problem.
https://inkscape.org/en/contribute/testing/#rendering-tests
If we could get this working again, it would be great.
Yep, maintenance is the trick with automated testsuites.
Creating the testsuite and automating it are usually straightforward one-time efforts, but it's for naught if it isn't coupled with someone dedicated to follow up on and/or fix issues the automated tests discover.
Bryce