Re: [widgets interface] Tests generated from WebIDL from Dominique Hazael-Massieux on 2009-11-12 (public-webapps@w3.org from October to December 2009)

From: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:34:13 +0100
To: Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com>
Cc: public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <1258047253.7093.2916.camel@localhost>

Le jeudi 12 novembre 2009 à 17:52 +0100, Marcos Caceres a écrit :
> > I complete agree that manual tests bring a lot of value, but I think it
> > would be unwise to refuse automated tests that express exactly what the
> > spec expresses — in particular, they can be extremely useful to detect
> > bugs in the WebIDL defined in the specs, bugs that are extremely
> > unlikely to be detected through manual testing.
> 
> Like I said, we are certainly not rejecting automated testing, we (me) 
> are just not up to that stage yet. I completely agree with you that it 
> will help us find more potential bugs in the IDL itself.

I see, sorry I misunderstood then :)

Thanks for the clarification,

Dom

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