Chapter 4. Writing Conformance tests

Note: This part of the documentation is still very much a work in progress and is in no way complete.

4.1. Introduction

With more The Windows API follows no standard, it is itself a defacto standard, and deviations from that standard, even small ones, often cause applications to crash or misbehave in some way. Furthermore a conformance test suite is the most accurate (if not necessarily the most complete) form of API documentation and can be used to supplement the Windows API documentation.

Writing a conformance test suite for more than 10000 APIs is no small undertaking. Fortunately it can prove very useful to the development of Wine way before it is complete.