Interactive test scripts for Qt/nb issues

[minrk]

Our ability to test qt and notebook code, due to its inherently human-interactive nature is sorely lacking. I know there are web and Qt testing tools, but what might provide a crude solution in the meantime would be to track some test scripts and notebooks, so that we have samples to run to more reliably evaluate whether things are well behaved.

For instance, for the recent carriage-return work in the qtconsole, we have the following cases:

Show that CR action properly overwrites lines:

for i in range(10):
    print '\r%s' % (i*str(i)),
    sys.stdout.flush()
    time.sleep(0.5)

CR clears whole lines, unlike the terminal:

for i in range(9,1,-1):
    print '\r%s' % (i*str(i)),
    sys.stdout.flush()
    time.sleep(0.5)

CRLF is treated as a newline:

for i in range(10):
    print '%s\r\n' % (i*str(i)),
    sys.stdout.flush()
    time.sleep(0.5)

Which we could run, with either %loadpy, or do as a Demo.

Perhaps we should keep these in examples/tests/?

[takluyver]

That definitely sounds like a good idea.

[minrk]

This doesn't need to stay open as an Issue, closing.