TESTING.md

Testing

This document provides a regression testing checklist for COSMIC Edit. The checklist provides a starting point for Quality Assurance reviews.

Checklist:

Basic operations

• Type three lines of text (no trailing newline).
• Copy the last two lines.
• Paste at the end of the third line (file should now have four lines).
• Ctrl-Z to undo the paste.
• Press Enter to add a trailing newline.
• Paste again (file should now have five lines).
• Ctrl-Z to undo the paste.
• Ctrl-Shift-Z to redo the paste.
• Save the file.
• Ctrl-F and search for something that has a match.
• Press Esc twice to exit the Find dialog.
• Press Ctrl-X to cut the selected search result.
• Paste the cut text on a new line (file should now have six lines).
• Re-save the file.
• Narrow the window until the lines start wrapping (make a line longer if necessary to observe line wrapping).
• Turn word wrapping off.
• Scroll right to the end of the document, then left to the beginning again.
• Click and drag to select some text past the horizontal edge of the window.
• Close the file, open COSMIC Edit again, and open the file via the recents list.
• Close the file again, open COSMIC Edit again, and open the file via the Open dialog.
• Turn word wrapping back on.

Settings

• Open View -> Settings.
• All Appearance settings work.
• Vim bindings work.

Projects & Git Management

• Clone the cosmic-edit Git repo and open its directory as a project.
• Edit -> Find in project... works.
• Make a change in a file.
• File -> Git management shows the change and staging it works.
• Make another change while Git management's open; it updates to show the new change.