Month: August 2010

Hi All,

First of all my apologies for showing up late this week, as something urgent came up this weekend.
Next, some updates on my work till today :
Last week I started with implementing the exit Dialog using ListWidget, which is shown to the user before exiting. The advantage of using a ListWidget is making the exit dialog scrollable.

Next I moved on to implement AudioCD tests.
Backend provides an API to play audio tracks from a CD Drive or a hard drive if no tracks are found in the cd drive.
To play tracks from hard drive, the search is made in predefined directories using SaerchMan.
To test if the implementation is fine or not, I have created 4 mp3 files and play them in order i.e
track1-track2-track3->track-4.
Then I verify the ordering from the user and decide if the implementation is fine or not.

The audioCD data tracks are MP3 files, converted from text using text-to-MP3 converter.

Next I moved on with producing audio outputs with variable sample rates.

Finally, to test MIDI, i brought changes from trunk to my branch, through a SVN merge.

Next, I figured out a bug in the Message Dialogs. The problem was, the hotkeys were not working as they should be.
I explored this and found out that the Initializer list for the button instances was incomplete. Finally  committed the patch to the trunk.

Next I did worked upon improving tests/UI as pointed out by Eugene.

I now plan to finally get done with MIDI tests, and send my code to review.

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Neeraj

Hi everyone,
Here are some updates on my work last week.
I started up with fixing the boundary palette problem in the palette rotation test. The problem was I was taking two colors for background and foreground, these were now included in the palette to be rotated. This also involved implementing colored progress bar so that they look nicer.
Next I moved on with Sound Subsystem tests. The intent was to test if the backend was able to identify sounds or not using beeps. For generating the sound data I used the PC speaker emulator, the stream could also have been a file but that would couple it with FS tests.

Next I found out that the progress bar displays the testsuite counts to the sizes even if none of them are enabled. The next commit intended at displaying correct information, like if X out of Y tests are enabled, the bar should be like XX of X tests instead of XX of Y tests.
Similarly,, as required, a finish test zone was added to mouse event tests. This would be useful for keyboardless backends.

Next was GUI, of sound subsystem tests. As earlier uses of GUI in the engine code were using some stuff, so this work involved a bit refactoring of GUI code in the engine with introduction of Generic class and a few generic methods.
This was used in generating Multichannel sound to test if Mixer works fine. The user can pause and play a particular channel at his choice using the GUI.

Next, I tried an entire run under valgrind, this identified new-delete mismatches at two places, these were fixed as well.
Next I moved to fix a bug in configFile handling, with testsuite rerunning, the size of the config file key-value pairs was increasing, for each rerun. The fix to this was simply an one-liner :).

Finally, we have a GUI in the end, which displays a summary of the current execution of testbed. One can rerun the testsuite from that dialog.

For next week, I have:
Monday/Tuesday : AudioCD/ Sample rates
Wednesday onwards : Midi Tests, testing and documentation later on once Midi tests are done.

Thanks