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["Carlos J. Mazieri" <carlos.mazieri@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 09 August 2014 13:58:37 Michael Zanetti wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Friday 08 August 2014 15:42:57 Alex Chiang wrote:
> > Are there any that use QtTest?
> 
> lp:unity8 and related backend repos use quite a lot of QtTest. Check out the
> tests/plugins directory.
> 
> I think I've also seen some QtTest tests in some of the apps.

 As an app example you can check  file manager tests[1] 


> 
> > TBH, the two frameworks seem fairly similar in functionality, so this
> > seems more like a social issue than a technology issue.
> 
> I agree. It's not much of a difference. From what I've seen so far, GTest
> makes it slightly easier to inject mocked objects/calls while QtTest fits in
> a bit better when you want to test Qt style APIs with signals, properties
> etc. Gives you handy stuff like tryCompare and QSignalSpy or interaction
> with UIs.
> > We don't have any special requirements. We just want to do what is
> > most popular and whatever the platform recommends, in order to
> > minimize the friction for potential outside developers to contribute
> > to our code.
> 
> Yes, I for one would keep the tests to the same framework as the code itself
> which I think is mostly what we do overall. If the codebase uses a lot of
> Qt it probably makes sense to stick to QtTest but not pulling in QtTest on
> a library that doesn't really use Qt otherwise...
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael


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[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-filemanager-dev/ubuntu-filemanager-app/trunk/files/head:/src/plugin/test_folderlistmodel/regression/