[maemo-developers] Testing apps

[From: Thomas Waelti]

Virtual machines :-)
I have one in which I develop and one for testing. The latter has a filebackup of the full machine so I can just dump it back to the initial state if needed.
-Tom

>
> Ive built a command-line app. I can bring up the Maemo UI and run the tool
> from Terminal just fine (from inside its source folder), however related
> utilities that come with the tool dont work - Im assuming I need to do a
> make install to fully test it.
>
> I could install it but then Im 'polluting' my dev environment with
> something that may not work and may be hard to remove all traces of
> correctly. What's a good strategy to test then? Should I make a package
> and use the package manager to install, test and uninstall? How do
> developers test apps like this?