[Wine] Want to help Wine and prevent regressions in your favorite (downloadable) app?

[Austin English]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Paul
Romanyszyn<pgr at arcelectronicsinc.com> wrote:
> Austin English wrote:
>>
>> Howdy all,
>>
>> For Google Summer of Code, I worked on a project I called Appinstall,
>> which is basically an automated test framework for Wine. It works as a
>> simple shell script, that runs several independent tests of
>> applications, then parses the log files to make sure no applications
>> broke, or bugs were fixed. The tests themselves are written using
>> AutoHotKey (http://www.autohotkey.com).
>>
>> The neat thing about AutoHotKey is it takes pretty much no programming
>> skill to write a simple test for your favorite application. So if you
>> really love Foobar Text Editor, and some past version of Wine made it
>> crash, you can prevent that from happening again by writing a test for
>> it. That way, daily, Foobar Text Editor is installed and run, to make
>> sure it doesn't crash. Of course, if you've got time and/or know of a
>> corner case that may break easily, AutoHotKey has a ton of functions
>> that allow you to do things like send keystrokes/mouseclicks/etc. to
>> make sure those things still work in your app.
>>
>> If you'd like to give it a try, pick your favorite application (make
>> sure it has a public download available), read
>> http:/wiki.winehq.org/Appinstall_Testing, and write a test. Be sure to
>> read the AutoHotKey documentation at http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/
>> if you're not familiar with it (it's _REALLY_ easy, most of it reads
>> like plain English) and to verify the test on Windows first. Don't
>> worry about writing really complex tests, just a simple test that
>> installs the application, verifies the install, and making sure it
>> runs can prevent a lot of bugs (and catch new bugs as well).
>>
>> If you've got a test ready, please e-mail me directly, and (if it
>> works) I'll commit it.
>>
>> Source is at http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/appinstall/
>>
> I have a few Delphi based bugs which have test exe's as bug attachments.
> Would a using them or a custom test application attached to a bug be allowed
> into these tests? Some of the bugs are 16 bit related and others are too
> hard to duplicate with a few lines of windows API as it is something deep
> inside the Delphi vcl.

Sure, as long as it's a precompiled binary.

-- 
-Austin