Hi Everyone -
I'm working on getting mono to run happily under wine, thus opening wine (& linux) up to a much larger range of .NET applications. Unfortunately, mono-under-wine fails in rather cryptic ways at the moment, so I've found that running the mono regression test suite has given me a better idea of how to approach debugging mono/wine.
Double unfortunately, running the mono regression test suite on linux, windows & wine presents a large series of interesting problems. So I've developed a python driver for the tests that spits out some html highlighting interesting test results and unifies the testing method on all three platforms.
The code is available at [1] There is a git repository at [2]
The scripts can generate static html pages for tests run, which are available at: [3] (you can download the entire set of gzipped pages from [4])
Many of the tests fail as a result of bug 8757, which causes mono to lock up while running a GC cycle. For now the scripts kill test cases after 5 minutes, but I've also included patches against wine to prevent the lockup (horrible hacks - disable modal message boxes & the debugbreak function). If you want to save time when running the tests, you can apply these patches in a git branch and test against that.
The tests are designed to require little-to-no user interaction - after an initial linux & windows test run are performed (sample test data at [5]), an automated update script (nightly-update.sh) can be called to automatically update wine, run the tests and publish the results.
Feedback is greatly appreciated - the tests are very temperamental, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if things break on other machines (I've tested pretty extensively and documented any non-automated actions necessary, but I want to make sure I didn't miss anything.)
Thanks, Matt Jones
[1] http://mhjones.org/wine/wine-tests/wine-test-reader.tar.gz [2] http://mhjones.org/wine/wine-tests/wine-test-reader.git [3] http://mhjones.org/wine/wine-tests/htmltest/index.py.html [4] http://mhjones.org/wine/wine-tests/htmltest.tar.gz [5] http://mhjones.org/wine/wine-tests/test-runs-example.tar.bz2
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Matt Jones