Re: ert.el --- Emacs Lisp Regression Testing

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Christian Ohler wrote:
> I'm a big fan of automated testing/unit testing.  However, it seems that 
> there is no widely-used testing framework for Emacs Lisp yet.  I've 
> tried various packages (regress.el, elunit.el, elk-test.el, XEmacs' 
> test-harness.el, the code in slime.el, and cc-mode's tests), but they're 
> all either too simplistic, very specialized, or not very Lispy.
>
> Here's the code that I use at the moment.  It requires Emacs 22.
>
> Please try it out and let me know what you think.  Something like this 
> really ought to be added to Emacs.


I will try to test it ;-)

One thing that might be handy is something that runs selected entries in 
a new instance of Emacs, starting from either "emacs" or "emacs -Q". I 
think that is one of the most common things I do when I am testing.