Measuring Wine's API completeness

Eric Pouech eric.pouech at wanadoo.fr
Tue Nov 15 14:30:33 CST 2005


Dimi Paun wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 03:32 -0600, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> 
>>The only way to know that something is done is to write a test case
>>for it and check the behavior against Windows. MSDN cannot be trusted,
>>and marking code as DONE just because it follows what happens to be in
>>the doc today is very misleading.
> 
> 
> I'm not arguing against test cases -- it's obviously better to have
> test cases. However, even if we do have them, there's no way of knowing
> that we are testing all documented aspects. In fact, I doubt we have
> such exhaustive tests right now.
> 
> I know that the docs are not perfect, but they are still an important
> milestone, and a relevant one in the vast majority of cases. It's been
> important (for me at least) to know the level of completeness versus
> documented behavior for the common controls. This is useful today, and
> it's a fraction of the effort compared to writing tests. I think they
> are complementary.
> 
and how do you deal of MSDN docs evolving ? I'm not even speaking of 
evolution because of new features, but MSDN gets updated from questions 
asked on the KB.
A+

-- 
Eric Pouech




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