X Window System Test Suite Released 14
chuckfucter writes "Xorg has announced the X Window System Test Suite today. From their page: 'The X.Org Foundation, global steward of the X Window System* and Standards, announced today that ApTest and The Open Group have together donated their VSW5 Test Suite to The X.Org Foundation, where it shall be released under their standard Open Source license as XTS 5.0.2. The X Window System is released by the X.Org Foundation under the MIT ("X") License. The VSW5 Test Suite is the industry best practice in testing the X Window System.'"
Good news! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Good news! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:ha! (Score:4, Informative)
Gentoo reccomends you use X.org, X.org is in the portage tree.
X.org has released the package.
The only person talking about XFree86 is you. What the hell are you talking about?
What does it test? (Score:1)
Nobody knows. (Score:5, Informative)
The implication is that the test suite is supposed to test whether the API and X protocol are implemented correctly and completely for some given revision. As this is the only test suite for X around, the other implication is that nobody knows what the API and X protocol really are. As the X.Org reference version is used to test compliance, if the reference version is incorrect, so is every other version. At which point, the question becomes whether "correct" has any meaning.
Re:What does it test? (Score:1)
p.s. I hope you're not one of those that thinks just because it compiles it must be correct...
Re:What does it test? (Score:3, Funny)
Hell, if it compiles, we ship it!
Re:What does it test? (Score:1)