I do not have a page on the Wiki yet describing test writing day. I
wrote a quick explanation during the first one. I will summarize it
on the Wiki. Basically, we have a few pieces of code with the tag
test-writing-day-# on it. People assign themselves one of those bugs
(or choose something they want to write a test for), and write a test
case for it using PgTap or Perl depending on the code in question.
Liam
Quoting Jim Taylor <[email protected]>:
Is there a link to a document somewhere that explains "Test Writing
Day"? What is the purpose, what happens, how does one get
involved, etc.? I assume the name is somewhat self-explanatory but
the extended discussion here makes me think my first guess was
wrong. I browsed the top level of the web site but didn't see
anything.
Thanks.
Jim
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Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 11:47 AM
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Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen Test Writing Day
Hi all,
Just to add some clarification on the dates, test-writing day is
scheduled for today, November 17 and the point release is scheduled
for tomorrow, November 18.
I clarified the dates in IRC earlier when I realized there was
confusion on the dates, but I neglected to send a follow-up email to
the lists.
Liam, I don't know how you want to proceed on re-scheduling or not,
but I think it's fine to continue today.
Kathy
On 11/17/2015 12:30 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Because I scheduled the current Test Writing Day to take place on the
same day as the Monthly Maintenance, I will postpone test writing day
until next week.
Here is a Doodle poll to help choose the new date:
http://doodle.com/poll/6mbgkn22d29y25r3
I will add this new date to the Evergreen community calendar by the
end of Friday this week.
Liam
Quoting Jason Stephenson <[email protected]>:
Quoting Kathy Lussier <[email protected]>:
Jason, do you think there will be much of a conflict with release
day if we hold off on merging any of the tests until after tomorrow?
The patches from the August test writing day weren't merged until
last week, and, I don't see why it would be a problem waiting a few
days to merge this batch.
For monthly releases, I doubt that it would be a huge deal. I don't
think the tests would normally get back ported to the release branches.
I just recall that 2.9.0 release day was a bit of a pain because
people kept pushing documentation commits after I had already started
working on the release.
I still think it would be a good idea to have test writing day or any
other day involving code or documentation to fall on days other than
release days.
It is tough enough to get releases together without the added
distractions.
(Particularly difficult for me since our release schedule seems to
fall on the day after my consortium's Executive and/or Membership
meetings, so I have a day full of meeting the day before the
release.)
Cheers,
Jason
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