Re: Test for portals passes even when file portal is broken

Alyssa Ross
2025-12-06T12:26:52Z

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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.

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