On 8 January 2015 at 17:15, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]>
wrote:

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> From: jan i [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2015 03:11
> To: [email protected]; Dennis Hamilton
> Subject: Re: Coding Standards page
>
> On 8 January 2015 at 00:40, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> [ ... ]
> > It is OK to have binaries for test. Can you please add the right git
> > attributes to the main test dir.
> >
> > <orcmid>
> >    I don't see a main test dir anywhere.
> >    If you know of specific file extensions for binary content that we
> have,
> >    please update the .gitattributes file at the repository root.  I
> > couldn't
> >    Find anything with a quick scan of the repository.
> >    (The SVN definitions are different and we don't use our SVN that way.)
> > </orcmid>
> >
> <orcmid>
>    When I went looking for a test directory, I found Peter's test
> documents.
>    As well as I could determine, they are all .html files, so there is
>    nothing to do.
>
>    Looking at the poi files, I see that there are many in binary formats.
>    I could simply add those to the list of binaries in .gitattributes.
>    It would be better to have some sort of files to confirm that the
>    .gitattributes is working, like a specimen of each file extension.
>
>    I can make the .gitattributes changes.  It will need to be reviewed
> </orcmid>
>
> >
> > My bad, I have one in my branch but it is not in the repo....I think went
> away because peter moved test cases into docFormats, since they were all
> white box testing.
>
> We need a test dir at top level for black box tests, please create one. May
> I suggest we add the poi test documents in a subdir, with a readme file
> that informs the origin.
>
> Dave@ thanks for your idea, and for sharing your concern...I think it is
> better to have them in our git repo, so developers dont need multiple
> version control clients.
> <orcmid>
>    I am not taking an action on creation of a test directory.  There is
>    Need for more conversation on organization and whether to fork or to
>    fetch, etc., to be considered.  Also, there is no discussion yet
>    of how tests themselves are conducted using whatever test documents
>    there are.
> </orcmid>
>

I would have assumed that collecting test documents can never be bad. I am
not sure I can follow you with "to fork or to fetch".

I believe we need to documents in our test repo, so that developers have no
excuse for not running the tests. If I see dftest (and/or dfutil) you can
setup testcases, that reads the .docx document, generates html, and checks
it.

The discussion is in itself important, I agree to that.

rgds
jan i


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> rgds
> jan i
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