Easy applications to write automated tests for?

[Segin]

Dan Kegel wrote:

>On 3/19/06, Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com> wrote:
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>>On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 09:09 -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
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>>>I tried [mauve on msys on wine] ...
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>>I personally think this is a very exciting thing to get right.
>>Being able to run an emulation layer like msys/cygwin would
>>stress the hell out of the fundamental APIs, and would ensure
>>a solid implementation in Wine. Not to mention that:
>>  -- they are OSS, making debugging a bit easier
>>  -- they have _lots_ of tests that can be run automatically
>>  -- said tests could dramatically enhance and broaden the
>>     available regression tests we have
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>Totally.   FWIW, the old, minimal snapshot of cygwin in msys
>is probably easier to support than the modern cygwin.  (See
>http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/mSysFromScratch for
>how to build it, if you're interested.)
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>>Adding to this mix stuff like Java can only extend coverage.
>>And we would be tapping into a huge barrage of tests.
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>Yes, it would be an amazing amount of leverage, test-wise.
>Having msys working would make a whole new level of
>dogfooding possible (e.g. building windows mozilla/firefox
>on msys on wine).
>- Dan
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Well, that would be good for dogfooding, but so would getting Dev-C++ to 
work perfectly on Wine -- it uses MingW/gcc to compile.
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