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

Demi Marie Obenour
2025-12-06T12:29:50Z

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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.
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Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)

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