> -----Original Message----- > From: development-bounces+mitch.curtis=theqtcompany....@qt-project.org > [mailto:development-bounces+mitch.curtis=theqtcompany....@qt-project.org] > On Behalf Of André Somers > Sent: Wednesday, 3 June 2015 8:39 AM > To: <development@qt-project.org> > Subject: [Development] date/time adjust for (auto) testing > > Hi, > > We have applications that use the current date and time at places spread > around the code. For normal operations, that works very nicely. However, > we find that for (auto) testing, it would be very convenient if we could > trick the application into believing it is some other date/time, so that > we can test if certain behaviours work the way we would like to > automatically. Currently, these tests take a lot of time because we > actually need to manually adjust the system date and time, do some > stuff, then adjust again, etc. > > It would be really confortable if there was some control to set a > date/time offset (so the time keeps running) or a fixed date/time to be > returned from currentDate(), currentTime() or currentDateTime() > respectively. I guess access to such a thing does not belong in the main > Qt classes, but is really a testing tool, so perhaps it could find > refuge in QtTest somewhere. Would a contribution adding such a thing > stand any chance of being accepted, or would this be considered out of > scope or even unwanted? > > An alternative might be to hook the windows kernel API, but that may be > much tricker to get right and may have unforseen consequences for the > code injected by Squish doing the actual testing. > > André > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
Sounds like a great thing to have if you can get it working. The QDateTime tests themselves would benefit from this quite a lot. Perhaps you've already seen, but it looks like Thiago attempted something similar with a8c74ddcf78604c9038ba2a2bea81e445e4b3c58: http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/tests/auto/corelib/tools/qdatetime/tst_qdatetime.cpp#n2988 _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
