X.org testing with Google Test

[Matt Dew]

On 01/02/2012 10:41 AM, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jan 02 2012, Matt Dew wrote:
>>> If I understand it correctly, tinderbox is a continuous integration
>>> system (much like Jenkins) that compiles and executes unit tests. That
>>> is, it should be no problem to execute the unit test executables built
>>> with our framework/Google test.
>
> I agree, this is possible.  You can run arbitrary code as a tinderbox
> jhbuild "module", including running test binaries against the newly
> built X server and recording their output.  I've already got code that
> runs rendercheck/x11perf/piglit/renderbench/cairotest/cairoperf and
> reports the results, though this isn't running on most of the tinderbox
> machines.
>
> I should add that our current tinderbox's use of jhautobuild is not so
> much a conscious choice as a historical accident -- moving it over to
> Jenkins would be a fine project if someone's interested in doing it.


Would this be enough work to this qualify for a EVoC/GSoC project?