[HTTPS-Everywhere] Automatic testing of rules to discover rules that broke (e.g. by site redesign)

[Peter Eckersley]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 06:50:01PM +0200, Ondrej Mikle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> seeing how many times "broken rule" topics appear in https-everywhere-rules,
> have you considered some automatic tests? (Re-reading the text of this mail
> again, I might be attempting to solve a problem you may not really have.)

We would /love/ to have someone implement a proper test suite of this sort!
We even offered it as a Google Summer of Code project this year, though we
didn't get any takers :(

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