Re: [ft-devel] Unit test environment for FreeType

[Brian Stell]

Hi Sean,

So, crowdsourcing the test systems / build-bots? And the aggregating the results?

Any idea how linux distros handle code coming from multiple sources?

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Hi Alexei,

I agree that different people have different opinions on how to best handle mapping the outlines to low resolution. I'm also aware that simple pixel comparison of anti-aliased glyphs is fragile.

Potentially we could:

• look at the outlines pre and post hinting.
  
• compare monochrome rendering (which actually looks decent on retinal displays)

I'm thinking more along the line of breakage than beauty ;-)

Cheers,

Brian

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Sean McBride <address@hidden> wrote:

On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:43:35 -0800, Brian Stell said:

>Freetype is a critical part of the Linux world. It's become fairly common
>for bodies of code to have a test suite. (I'm not proposing full testing
>right right now ;-)
>
>I think the most critical issue is which testing environment would be best
>for FT.
>CUnit, CppUnit, googletest, ...
>
>Thoughts?

Yes, this is a serious shortcoming of FreeType.  It's not just unit testing that's lacking, but nightly automated builds on a variety of platforms.  Something that produces results like this:

<http://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=CMake>

Cheers,

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