halting problem :: More little testing

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Back in March, I wrote about µTest, a Behavior-Driven Development testing API for C libraries, and that I was planning to use it to replace the GLib testing API in Graphene.

As I was busy with other things in GTK, it took me a while to get back to µTest—especially because I needed some time to set up a development environment on Windows in order to port µTest there. I managed to find some time over various weekends and evenings, and ended up fixing a couple of small issues here and there, to the point that I could run µTest’s own test suite on my Windows 10 box, and then get the CI build job I have on Appveyor to succeed as well.

Setting up MSYS2 was the most time consuming bit, really

While at it, I also cleaned up the API and properly documented it.

Since depending on gtk-doc would defeat the purpose, and since I honestly dislike Doxygen, I was looking for a way to write the API reference and publish it as HTML. As luck would have it, I remembered a mention on Twitter about Markdeep, a self-contained bit of JavaScript capable of turning a Markdown document into a half decent HTML page client side. Coupled with GitHub pages, I ended up with a fairly decent online API reference that also works offline, falls back to a Markdown document when not running through JavaScript, and can get fixed via pull requests.

Now that µTest is in a decent state, I ported the Graphene test suite over to it and, now I can run it on Windows using MSVC—and MSYS2, as soon as the issue with GCC gets fixed upstream. This means that, hopefully, we won’t have regressions on Windows in the future.

The µTest API is small enough, now, that I don’t plan major changes; I don’t want to commit to full API stability just yet, but I think we’re getting close to a first stable release soon; definitely before Graphene 1.10 gets released.

In case you think this could be useful for you: feedback, in the form of issues and pull requests, is welcome.

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