Joerg Skottke, 18-07-2007 09:53:
i updated a lot of files below framework/extras in the last few days -
possibly about 1500 updates to CVS.
The our cvs-update list become the most active mailing list I've seen ;).
There were a lot of reasons to do this:
a) Each test used a unique way/naming scheme of storing the reference
files which was rather chaotic. Maintaining the list was a - well, an
annoyance at best.
b) The files were not brand-aware (we have at least four brands now:
OpenOffice.org, BrOffice.org, StarOffice and StarSuite).
c) The file structure was not suited for versioning (which is a
requirement in case we move to another code line and want to keep
compatibility).
d) It was suggested by the OOo community that we use ISO language codes
instead of telephone codes (meaning "en_US" instead of "01") which i
implemented for the newer files.
e) Many files were split up in small chunks (esp. the labels) which
resulted in countless files with names that did not even indicate their
purpose.
f) Some of the "old" test cases did not have a proper description
included (meaning that the comments - when extracted from the files -
did not give a step-by-step description of what the tests do). This has
been fixed as well.
If i did not miss anything we now should have one single consistent way
throughout the entire framework module to handle localized reference files.
All of these are great news, for QA in general and for our localizers,
thanks.
In case someone wants to do automation or wants to learn how the
mechanism is implemented i can recommend studying the test case
tLabelTypes() which can be found in the file
".../framework/extras/inc/extras_labels.inc". For your convenience i
have extracted the documentation to this test case and put it beside the
.inc file as "extras_labels.html".
Thanks for this Joerg.
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