On 12/6/25 07:26, Alyssa Ross wrote:
> Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> While trying to sandbox the file chooser portal, I broke it.
>> This caused files not to be saved, resulting in silent data loss.
>> Unfortunately, the integration test still passed.
>>
>> Is this a bug in the test?  Is there a better alternative to manual
>> testing?
> 
> Not presently, but we can work on improving the test.  The current
> portal test was written as a regression test for a specific issue we
> had.  It's quite hard to test completely end to end but we could do a
> lot better.
> 
> I would quite like to spend some time in February or so working on our
> tests.

Would it make sense to use openQA for this?  Qubes OS uses openQA
and it works very well.  openQA is written in Perl, but it’s the
best tool I know of for this.
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)