Ross Gardler wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > >>************************************************************************ > >>* If you have an area that commonly causes problems please let me know * > >>************************************************************************ > >> > >>That is where I will focus my initial efforts. > >> > >><snip/> > >>Thanks for the info, time for me to go look in bugzilla and see if there > >>are any recurring bugs in another part of the system just waiting for > >>unit tests. > >> > > > > Wow. Ross, this is vital. So please do help to start the process. > > > <snip> > > > However, i remember > > that Bernhard warned that JUnit tests could be hard to maintain. > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=100972338307120 > > Re: BUG 5060, CommandlineContext > > I certainly agree with Bernhard, unit tests are hard to maintain. On one > of our projects we have just appointed someone to focus on testing, > perhaps Cocoon could benifit from such an approach, if only Unit Tests > were as interesting new code ;-) > > I should be able to spend a day on this next week, I'll come back > with a proposal about how to get started, and maybe even write the > odd test :-)
I speak with absolutely no knowledge of this topic (though i certainly appreciate it). Anyway i want to encourage this to happen. I have heard Ovidiu make reference to Anteater, and especially to recent work in this area. Is "unit testing" different to "functional testing", or are they complementary? Here are a few relevant Anteater threads ... http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=101831758001240 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=102168000122016 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=101897525908787 You mention something above that could be key ... if only unit tests were interesting. I wonder if Cocoon could help itself here. If the results of running the test suite were generated as xml, we could have a Sample that demonstrates how happy Cocoon is with its current state. The developers would like to be sure that their favourite classes were behaving well. --David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
