[wxPython-users] Automated testing of wxPython

[Josiah Carlson]

Don Dwiggins <ddwiggins at advpubtech.com> wrote:
> Kevin Ollivier wrote:
> > We currently don't have automated testing in place, and so unfortunately 
> > it's not uncommon to get regressions in the codebase, but until we have 
> > an automated solution in place we are very, very dependent on users 
> > reporting bugs that they found to improve wxPython. Robin, myself, and a 
> > few other people really can't test hard enough to find all the problems 
> > in wxPython ourselves.
> 
> This seems to suggest that you're working on an automated way to test 
> wxPython components; is this right?  If so, could it also be used for 
> automated testing of wxPython applications?  I generally write my apps 
> in a semi-MVC style that allows automated unit testing of the model, but 
> it'd be neat to be able to do the same for the GUI component.

There's an accepted Google SoC project for building a testing framework:
http://code.google.com/soc/wxpython/appinfo.html?csaid=830C0C2A7F545880

We'll see what is produced by the end of the summer.

 - Josiah