Quality Assurance Initiative

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The Quality Assurance Initiative aims to improve the quality and stability of Inkscape and to reduce the number of bugs and regressions, especially severe ones.

In a nutshell, the goal is to have more of:

• Test coverage of source code (unit tests, component/integration tests, end-to-end tests);
• Test automation, developer-friendly testing frameworks and tooling;
• Good practices related to coding and testing;
• Improvements to the code review process and release management;
• Focus on quality in all we do.

In this way, we would like to have less of:

• Crashes and data loss bugs;
• Memory leaks and corruption;
• Glitches, corner cases and difficult-to-reproduce bugs;
• Fragility due to hidden assumptions and limitations;
• Legacy code;
• Code that nobody understands and maintains.

Automated testing

The Test Pyramid illustrates the relative importance and the desired prevalence of tests at different coverage levels.