Devs - As recently discussed on matrix https://matrix.to/#/#apache-fineract-dev:matrix.org
We have a LOT of tests. Adam S. did much of the work to enable them to run in parallel on VMs. [1] [2], I believe alongside Kristoff. This enables them to run without bogging down. Yet, despite having something in the range of >1500 tests, we do not have good test coverages for large swaths of the project. It is HEAVILY skewed toward the Progressive Loan module. I would like to propose that a new FSIP (fineract significant improvement project) is discussed now, formulated, then voted upon in a week or two, then worked on by a range of folks over the next year. i.e. GSOC students, other volunteers, new devs, etc. We can certainly get some help from the AI tooling per previous discussions. Brainstorming time. AND, as a corollary, if we don't want to support an area of functionality, we should prune it from the code release. To put an arbitrary number to this: we need at least 40-50% coverage of an area of code to allow it to continue to be in the project. We want 70% coverage for some level of stability. We ramp this up on a quarterly reporting basis: 2027: * January 10th - what test coverage do we have today across the modules, assumed to be 0% for some modules, and up to 70% for others. Baseline published. * April 10th - at least 10% cucumber test coverage for all components that we intend to keep. Plans to prune begin. * July 10th - at least 20% cucumber test coverage for all components that we intend to keep. * Oct 10 - at least 40% . Pruning. * Jan 2028 - stability To work on something like this, you need to dig into the topic, examine the code, pay close attention to the existing cucumber tests and setup, write domain specific tests, and incrementally increase the test coverage. It must be coordinated and someone must own it - I would want an eager volunteer for this, just for the coordination. [1] https://github.com/apache/fineract/tree/develop/fineract-e2e-tests-runner/src/test/resources/features [2] (.github/workflows/build-e2e-tests.yml, scripts/split-features.sh, Comments, concerns, feedback? -James
