Google Summer of Code Test Suite project

[Lei Zhang]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Corey McClymonds <galeru at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to work on the Regression Suite project, but I'm not
>  quite sure of the scope.  Would I be choosing a good 30 or 40
>  applications that run well on wine, using wpkg to install them, and
>  then test for failures?  Because that would seem as though I am only
>  doing installer testing, instead of actual application testing.  I
>  would also like to do some sort of automated regression testing for
>  actual features you can easily test, if that would be possible.
>
>  Corey

Let's just say you're going to write an installer tester. How do you
define a failure? If you're  doing silent installers, do you just look
at the return value from the installer? If you installed app foo, and
the installer created file bar on Windows with a checksum of qux, but
not in Wine, does that count as a failure? How about if a registry key
is missing on Wine?