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Extensions for Automation

This week I’ve been taking a different tack on the testing problem. I’ve been thinking about unit testing at the C++ level over the past couple of weeks and have a couple of frameworks to try out. I’ve had a couple of issues with both of the frameworks which I’ll get to in a later post.

In the meantime, I’ve lifted myself out of the C++ and taken a look at Extension Development. There are a number of places in the application that can be tested with some simple extensions. Or so the theory goes… This week, I’m writing an extension to test some bookmarking functions. I’ll be documenting the process in detail on my wiki page for anyone interested.

One final note, Ted Mielczarek’s Firefox/Thunderbird Extension Wizard is a great starting point for building an extension.

Rob, in case it’s relevant:

http://dev.hyperstruct.net/trac/mozlab/wiki/MozUnit

Hyperstruct, thanks for the comment. I’ll take a look at mozlab and mozunit. Interesting test-driven development demo you’ve got there.

Glad to see you found it useful! Now I just need to get around to updating the Extension Developer’s Extension to work with generated extensions…

Hey Ted,

Yeah, the Extension Wizard is good stuff. The Extension Developer’s Extension is very helpful, but it needs a little love on 2.0. Still, thanks for the stuff!