Created attachment 272170 [details] [review]
added infrastructure for tests.

I am also maintaining separate branch testable here : https://github.com/pranavk/gnome-documents/tree/testable

for writing UI tests for gnome-documents.

Review of attachment 272170 [details] [review]:

Thanks for picking this up, Pranav! We sorely need tests. A few initial comments.

::: Makefile.am
@@ +1,1 @@
 ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 -I libgd ${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}

You missed:
 DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS = --disable-dogtail

::: configure.ac
@@ +110,3 @@
+              enable_dogtail=yes)
+AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_DOGTAIL, test "$enable_dogtail" != no)
+

Why not go the whole distance and add lcov support too? See commit f8fca13f50480707eac52236fc3d89c6340ba20e in gnome-weather.

::: tests/Makefile.am
@@ +16,3 @@
+endif
+
+include $(top_srcdir)/git.mk

This is unrelated to this commit. Please use a separate commit for introducing git.mk managed .gitignore.

Blocked by Bug 726794

Created attachment 293668 [details] [review]
Add infrastructure for application tests

Based on gnome-photos

GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
and supported software version, then please follow
  https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines
and create a new ticket at
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-documents/-/issues/

Thank you for your understanding and your help.