BuffTimers

World of Warcraft addon to show accurate buff durations, with optional seconds and milliseconds.

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Development

Unit tests use Mechanic v1.4.2 and Busted with Lua 5.1. Mechanic currently needs an editable checkout so its dashboard and command assets remain available:

git clone --branch v1.4.2 --depth 1 https://github.com/Falkicon/Mechanic.git ..\Mechanic
python -m pip install --editable ..\Mechanic\desktop
$mechanicScripts = python -c "import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_path('scripts', scheme='nt_user'))"
$env:Path = "$mechanicScripts;$env:Path"
luarocks install busted
mech setup-busted
mech call addon.test '{\"addon\":\"BuffTimers\",\"path\":\".\"}'

The same suite can be run directly with busted.

Client compatibility matrix

addon.test runs the compatibility cases in Tests/client_compatibility_spec.lua for every interface declared by BuffTimers.toc:

• Retail (120100, upstream live)
• Mists of Pandaria Classic (50504, upstream classic)
• Titan (38002, upstream classic_titan)
• Anniversary (20506, upstream classic_anniversary)
• Classic Era (11509, upstream classic_era)
• Forever (16001, upstream forever)

The fixtures mirror Blizzard's current normal buff, debuff, temporary-enchant, and deadly-debuff button records. The matrix also fails if the interfaces in the TOC and tests drift apart.

Mechanic's offline tests do not launch or emulate a WoW client. After they pass, use addon.sync to link BuffTimers into each installed client and perform an in-game smoke test. Mechanic v1.4.2's addon.validate command has a hard-coded, older Retail interface list, so the WoW UI source audit and the TOC matrix test are the compatibility authorities for these versions.

To copy the addon files into every locally installed WoW game version instead, run:

.\scripts\copy-to-wow.ps1

The script discovers standard Battle.net installations and registered custom locations. For an installation it cannot discover automatically, pass the directory that contains _retail_, _classic_, and the other game-version folders:

.\scripts\copy-to-wow.ps1 -WowRoot "D:\World of Warcraft"