Automate Emacs UI testing? (was: Move to a cadence release model?)

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> writes:

> As Emacs has no strong test suite (automatic testing of UI is hard, so no
> cure for this on sight) neither has many resources for steady manual testing
> and bug-fixing, I'm afraid that switching to the cadence model would
> deteriorate the quality of releases.

Web developers have some pretty awesome tools for driving a UI and observing
the resulting behavior. I wonder what it would take to have a framework like
that for Emacs...

John