Hi Vincent, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I don't know if you're like me but I have the strong feeling we should > be better at not introducing regressions. One of the goal of XE 1.3 > and now again XE 1.4 was more stability and more automated tests. > > Several potential problems are occurring now: > > [...] > 4) We're committing more code than tests meaning the overall quality > of XWiki is degrading :( >
not really adequate to the topic of the thread, but also an important aspect: >From my experiment in developing a plugin for XWiki (an additional link filter, in fact), I observed some design flaws in the core, that make it very hard to test single components/classes without having dependencies to the whole system including the database stuff. Some few design changes and refactorings in the core could improve the testability strongly. If you (or other commiters) are interested in, I'll give you you some examples... > Thus I'd like to propose that: > > A) We become very very careful when committing things and we only > commit when we can *guarantee* that what we've done is working (with a > given level of confidence of course). This can only be achieved > through tests being committed at the same time as the code is committed > [...] > C) In general we reduce the number of changes that we commit and > instead we focus on tests and stability. This is indeed one of the > general goals for 1.4. > > WDYT? +1 -Marco _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
