On Jan 31, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Geert Janssens <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 31-01-13 19:04, John Ralls wrote: >> >>>>>> How can we in the future improve our process to something in which the >>>>>> history clearly reflects what actually happened, in which no work is >>>>>> lost (by forgetting to backport) and without too much overhead. >>>>> And also test/review changes before they go into the release branch? >>>> The generally accepted best practice for that is to require 100% test >>>> coverage and to require that all tests (including a new one that covers >>>> the current change) pass. It doesn't seem likely that we would adopt that >>>> practice. >>> No, we're not set up for that. But I believe it should be one of our goals >>> to get better test coverage. I know you have this on your agenda and I'm >>> quite happy about it. >>> A couple of times I started looking into writing tests myself, but never >>> managed to actually produce some due to lack of time and experience. >>> Perhaps this is a good time to ask: >>> a. do you know of a good introduction to unit testing ? >>> b. is there some documentation on the unit testing framework used in >>> gnucash ? How should a test be constructed ? Are there particular functions >>> that should be used ? Things like that. >>> >> We have a wiki page [2] on the subject, but it's a bit light. I'll work on >> that a bit. Perhaps you (and others) could look it over and suggest more >> topics that it needs to cover. >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >> [1] >> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development_Process#Changeset_Auditing_Process >> [2] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Testing >> > The wiki page is already a good starting point. Thanks. For some reason I > hadn't found it before (probably didn't look hard enough). > > Any reason you have decided to the unstable documentation of the GLib testing > framework ? Sloth. When I'm working on that stuff, it's on master branches and I need to use the latest docs, so that's what I have bookmarked. Shouldn't have changed significantly, though: The first page of changes [1] goes back to 2008. Regards, John Ralls [1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/log/glib/gtestutils.c _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
