mutter/tests
Emmanuele Bassi 83b4ec7a12 units: Cache the pixels value inside Units
When computing the pixels value of a ClutterUnits value we should
be caching the value to avoid recomputing for every call of
clutter_units_to_pixels(). We already have a flag telling us to
return the cached value, but we miss the mechanism to evict the
cache whenever the Backend settings affecting the conversion, that
is default font and resolution, change.

In order to implement the eviction we can use a "serial"; the
Backend will have an internal serial field which we retrieve and
put inside the ClutterUnits structure (we split one of the two
64 bit padding fields into two 32 bit fields to maintain ABI); every
time we call clutter_units_to_pixels() we compare the units serial
with that of the Backend; if they match and pixels_set is set to
TRUE then we just return the stored pixels value. If the serials
do not match then we unset the pixels_set flag and recompute the
pixels value.

We can verify this by adding a simple test unit checking that
by changing the resolution of ClutterBackend we get different
pixel values for 1 em.

http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1843
2009-10-16 15:25:37 +01:00
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conform units: Cache the pixels value inside Units 2009-10-16 15:25:37 +01:00
data [build] Split out the custom silent rules 2009-09-16 17:47:59 +01:00
interactive [text] Add pre-edit string to ClutterText 2009-10-16 12:45:29 +01:00
micro-bench [build] Split out the custom silent rules 2009-09-16 17:47:59 +01:00
tools [build] Split out the custom silent rules 2009-09-16 17:47:59 +01:00
.gitignore [gitignore] Ignore new test-color-hls-roundtrip test 2009-08-03 14:25:08 +01:00
Makefile.am 2008-11-17 Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com> 2008-11-18 09:50:03 +00:00
README [docs] Fix typos and remove mentions of SVN 2009-07-12 01:38:40 +01:00

Outline of test categories:

The conform/ tests should be non-interactive unit-tests that verify a single feature is behaving as documented. See conform/ADDING_NEW_TESTS for more details.

The micro-bench/ tests should be focused perfomance test, ideally testing a single metric. Please never forget that these tests are synthetec and if you are using them then you understand what metric is being tested. They probably don't reflect any real world application loads and the intention is that you use these tests once you have already determined the crux of your problem and need focused feedback that your changes are indeed improving matters. There is no exit status requirements for these tests, but they should give clear feedback as to their performance. If the framerate is the feedback metric, then the test should forcibly enable FPS debugging.

The interactive/ tests are any tests whos status can not be determined without a user looking at some visual output, or providing some manual input etc. This covers most of the original Clutter tests. Ideally some of these tests will be migrated into the conformance/ directory so they can be used in automated nightly tests.

Other notes:
All tests should ideally include a detailed description in the source explaining exactly what the test is for, how the test was designed to work, and possibly a rationale for the approach taken for testing.