Kate Test Regression Suite

This blog is mainly about documenting the process how to run Kate Part’s test regression suite and probably not much use for other developers.

Step I: Setup the environment

1. create the file ~/.testkateregression. The content of this file is a single line pointing to the folder of the checkout of the test regression suite data. For me this is
   /home/dh/kde/tests/katetests/regression/
2. Create the folder where you checkout the suite
   mkdir /home/dh/kde/tests
3. Change to this folder
4. Checkout the data:
   svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/tests/katetests

Now all the data is there for testing.

Step II: Run the test suite

1. go to your build directory of kate (e.g. kdelibs/build/kate/tests/
2. run the complete suite:
   ./testkateregression.shell
3. run specific tests, e.g. for the c indenter:
   ./testkateregression.shell -t indent/csmart

That’s it.