From: "(rkumar) Sentinel" <sentinel.2001@...>
Date: 2009-12-31T22:02:36+09:00
Subject: Automated testing of visual library (ncurses)

As i work more on a ncurses widget library, I am wondering how does one
do automated testing for a software that is primarily visual. Whenever i
make changes, I need to ensure that things still show correctly - the
cursor position on screen, widget placement, text placement, text
wrapping, highlighting and attributes of widget, scrolling, cropping,
navigation, key handling, etc.

Currently, i have no way of knowing what's broken.

1. One thought that comes is to take some kind of screen dump and
compare screen dumps when testing. (I am on a unix terminal, of course,
OS X)


2. I don't think logging to a file and comparing logs would be of much
benefit.


Thoughts and pointers welcome.
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