Hi Holy,
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:38 PM, HolyCause holy.cause@gmail.com wrote:
I already asked Austin about that for my GSoC proposal:
in short, I think this effort is best spent somewhere else. GUI testing is really hard to get right, and very expensive(time, effort, disk space, cpu power, etc.).
Thanks for reminder, I agree GUI testing is expensive, but I think manpower is more expensive :) However I've no idea how hard is it to get GUI testing right yet, maybe you are right, but from my view it is worth to try.
I've since decided against GSoC for this year, but my idea revolved around improving cmd's parser, notably getting Firefox/Chromium and/or other software to build under wine (or at least, isolate potential/existing issues to non-cmd parts). I was partway through fixing http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21174
Dan Kegel seemed pretty interested in the project. If you're interested you could e-mail him.
Thanks, if this idea is not suitable for GSoC, I'll push it in my todo list. I'll contact to Dan and Austin once I'm going to do this.
Thank you for your suggestion and good luck to your GSoC project!