<p>It needs a way to startup Geany in a special testing mode, since most of Geany is not "testable" and requires lots of global setting up of state.</p>
<p>I made a patch a while ago to do similar but using GLib's builtin test framework instead:</p>
<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/codebrainz/7047610">https://gist.github.com/codebrainz/7047610</a></p>

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