I'm around all day [GMT+1] (have just booked it in my calendar to make sure I remember!) and have a moderate amount of experience with PHPUnit, so I'd be quite happy to help out or lead the move to PHPUnit and writing more tests =)
C -- Caius Durling [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0) 7960 268 100 http://caius.name/ On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Michael C. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 09:37:28AM +1000, Michael C. Harris wrote: >> It's been a while since we had a bug hunt - pre-0.4 iirc - so I >> propose that we schedule one. As an added bonus, I think we should >> combine a bug hunt with an effort to round out our current test suite. >> >> Any interest ? When would be good ? Maybe 6 or 13 September ? > > My idea was that while we were building new tests to round out our > test coverage, we would also use the test creation as a way to > encourage consistency across our APIs. For example, we should make > sure that the Post and Posts API works in a way consistent with Tag > and Tags. API stability is obviously a pre-requisite for going 1.0. > One reason for not doing this on 13 September is that Owen isn't > available. > > Also on testing, we currently use a homegrown testing framework, and > there has been some discussion on IRC recently about moving to > PHPUnit. The obvious advantage of using what's basically the standard > PHP test framework is that new developers are more likely to know how > to write tests (and Habarists can develop transferable skills). We > also don't have to maintain our own framework. The obvious > disadvantage is that we have to rewrite our tests. > > Should we move to PHPUnit ? > > If so, should we continue with the bug hunt and try to get moved over > to PHPUnit on 13 September ? > > -- > Michael C. Harris, School of CS&IT, RMIT University > http://twofishcreative.com/michael/blog > IRC: michaeltwofish #habari > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
