:idea: A way to automatically test wine applications

[fernandocarvalho]

I think that we are reaching a reasonable compatibility stage with windows applications.
However, there are applications that ways get progress and regressions in different areas.
So, I was figuring out, if there is a way to automatically test applications, against Wine.
There should be a way to every new patch, be tested against a set of applications, and it automatically report the execution log to wine developers.
In this way, the regressions could be reduced, and controlled more precisely.

[vitamin]

So, I was figuring out, if there is a way to automatically test applications, against Wine.

Yes there are multiple ways to do this. The problem it's too time consuming. And writing complete test for a complex application like MS Word, or most games is nearly impossible.

Wine has extensive set of tests that have to pass for each patch to be accepted. If you see more regressions write more tests.

[fernandocarvalho]

Can you give me an example of how can we automatically test MS Word for example?
Or another application.

[dimesio]

Can you give me an example of how can we automatically test MS Word for example?
Or another application.

http://wiki.winehq.org/Appinstall
http://wiki.winehq.org/wisotool

[Gert van den Berg]

Autohotkey.

Or test all the function that the applications use (which is what the
Wine test suite is attempting..)

[DanKegel]

And Seth Shellnut is doing some Autohotkey scripting to test some apps;
I imagine he'll post about it when he has a couple ready.