[Development] Question about tests/manual folders

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday, 20 September 2019 02:26:34 PDT Edward Welbourne wrote:
> The qtbase/tests/manual/corelib/ tests all date back to 2013 (aside from
> some copyright header updates).

Some of them are actually much older:
https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qt.git/tree/tests/manual

The whole point of a manual test is for things that can't be reliably tested 
in an automated way. Take two examples: QSysInfo and QStorageInfo. There are 
some aspects of both classes that can be tested in an automated way, like the 
consistency of results, but most of it can't. So we have manual test tools 
that allow us to quickly get all the output from those classes and see if 
there's something unexpected, compared to other tools and system 
configuration.

Ditto for highdpi.

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