Fixing Bugs and Adding Features
This page describes how to build, fix and improve the source code.
Making Changes
Pull requests are welcome at github project page.
For more info see Creating a pull request from a fork.
Try to keep the code style consistent with the existing code.
Build the Debug Version
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DWITH_TESTS=ON ..
make
Run Tests
You can run automated tests if the application is built either in debug
mode, with CMake flag -DWITH_TESTS=ON
.
Run the tests with following command.
copyq tests
This command will execute all test cases in new special CopyQ session so that user configuration, tabs and items are not modified. It’s better to close any other CopyQ session before running tests since they can affect test results.
While running tests there must be no keyboard and mouse interaction.
Preferably you can execute the tests in separate virtual environment. On
Linux you can run the tests on virtual X11 server with xvfb-run
.
xvfb-run sh -c 'openbox & sleep 1; copyq tests'
Test invocation examples:
Print help for tests:
copyq tests --help
Run specific tests:
copyq tests commandHelp commandVersion
Run specific tests for a plugin:
copyq tests 'PLUGINS:pinned' isPinned
Run tests only for specific plugins:
copyq tests 'PLUGINS:pinned|tags'
List tests:
copyq tests -functions
List tests for a plugin:
copyq tests PLUGINS:tags -functions
Less verbose tests:
copyq tests -silent
Slower GUI tests:
COPYQ_TESTS_KEYS_WAIT=1000 COPYQ_TESTS_KEY_DELAY=50 copyq tests editItems