[pulseaudio-discuss] [ANNOUNCE] PulseAudio 0.9.8

[Jim Carter]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> ..., because it is so broken that it hurts. (And I am now putting
> a brown paperbag on my head).

I have a big differential geometry project, and each module has a test 
program.  The makefile is set up so modules are built and tested in 
dependency order, and my standard procedure is to just do "make test" every 
time, so if I have to hack a supposedly finished module, the complete test 
is re-run automatically, and "make" stops at that point until I've fixed 
whatever new bug I introduced.  

I wonder if a similar set of tests could be created for PulseAudio, perhaps 
using a custom (or off-the-shelf?) ALSA capture plugin.  Creating the tests 
takes considerable work, but 30 seconds of automated testing could be as or 
more effective than hours of manual attention to detail repeated on every 
bug addition.

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