On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Harshad RJ <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Martin Blais <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> anonymify that minimal snippet.
>
>
> ​Martin, that gives me an idea. Since beancount already has the ability to
> export transactions in ledger format, you could add a switch to obfuscate
> the account names, etc while exporting.​ It will make it easier to report
> bugs.
>

That is an absolutely fantastic idea and I will implement it. I'm not
convinced that just replacing account names will be enough to share one's
file, but why not, it's easy. I'll try to think of a way to randomize some
numbers safely.

Another idea I have been thinking about recently is "fuzzing":
automatically generating a massive input file with all kinds of possible
combinations to see where the system falls on its face or bring up bugs I
may not have tested or. This is pretty common practice in protocol testing.

BTW, there is no conversion script yet, but it's one of the first things I
want to do after completing the docs. (It's probably just a few hours of
work in total to be honest and it'll be fun to play with other systems
using my big corpus of data. The only complications lie in resolving
difference in semantics - printing out compatible syntax would take 10
minutes, really).

Thanks,

-- 

--- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"Ledger" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to [email protected].
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Reply via email to