mutter/clutter/tests
Jonas Ådahl ef85d1a643 Add meson build support
This commit adds meson build support to mutter. It takes a step away
from the three separate code bases with three different autotools setups
into a single meson build system. There are still places that can be
unified better, for example by removing various "config.h" style files
from cogl and clutter, centralizing debug C flags and other configurable
macros, and similar artifacts that are there only because they were once
separate code bases.

There are some differences between the autotools setup and the new
meson. Here are a few:

The meson setup doesn't generate wrapper scripts for various cogl and
clutter test cases. What these tests did was more or less generate a
tiny script that called an executable with a test name as the argument.
To run particular tests, just run the test executable with the name of
the test as the argument.

The meson setup doesn't install test files anymore. The autotools test
suite was designed towards working with installed tests, but it didn't
really still, and now with meson, it doesn't install anything at all,
but instead makes sure that everything runs with the uninstalled input
files, binaries and libraries when running the test suite. Installable
tests may come later.

Tests from cogl, clutter and mutter are run on 'meson test'. In
autotools, only cogl and clutter tests were run on 'make check'.
2018-11-06 18:51:44 +01:00
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accessibility Add meson build support 2018-11-06 18:51:44 +01:00
conform Add meson build support 2018-11-06 18:51:44 +01:00
interactive Add meson build support 2018-11-06 18:51:44 +01:00
micro-bench Add meson build support 2018-11-06 18:51:44 +01:00
performance Add meson build support 2018-11-06 18:51:44 +01:00
clutter-1.0.suppressions move everything into a clutter/ directory 2016-04-12 20:04:26 +02:00
Makefile.am move everything into a clutter/ directory 2016-04-12 20:04:26 +02:00
meson.build Add meson build support 2018-11-06 18:51:44 +01:00
README move everything into a clutter/ directory 2016-04-12 20:04:26 +02:00

Outline of test categories:

The conform/ tests should be non-interactive unit-tests that verify a single
feature is behaving as documented. Use the GLib and Clutter test API and macros
to write the test units. The conformance test suites are meant to be used with
continuous integration builds.

The performance/ tests are performance tests, both focused tests testing single
metrics and larger tests. These tests are used to report one or more
performance markers for the build of Clutter. Each performance marker is picked
up from the standard output of running the tests from strings having the form
"\n@ marker-name: 42.23" where 'marker-name' and '42.23' are the key/value pairs
of a single metric. Each test can provide multiple key/value pairs. Note that
if framerate is the feedback metric the test should forcibly enable FPS
debugging itself. The file test-common.h contains utility function helping to
do fps reporting.

The interactive/ tests are any tests whose 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 conform/ directory.

The accessibility/ tests are tests created to test the accessibility support of
clutter, testing some of the atk interfaces.

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. Tests for specific
bugs should reference the bug report URL or number.

• When running tests under Valgrind, you should follow the instructions
available here:

        https://wiki.gnome.org/Valgrind

and also use the suppression file available in the Git repository.