Re: [Evolution-hackers] evolution-kolab: on (Unit) testing again
Hi, On Friday 16 Juli 2010 Matthew Barnes wrote: On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 15:54 +0200, Christian Hilberg wrote: Within our project it has been brought up that POSIX shell scripts might be a good choice in order to keep a low profile depencency-wise. Personally, I would prefer a higher-level scripting language which will offer more facility (esp. when it comes to mocking certain services or other complex things which will be a little bit painful to do in shell scripts). Nonetheless, I can perfectly understand the reasons if one prefers POSIX shell or something the like. I think Python would be the most palatable choice for GNOME software. And you should be able to rig up a mock service pretty easily with the libraries it provides. python has been accepted as the one single language for scripting within the evolution-kolab project, with an if-ever-needed-fallback, which is POSIX shell script (which we will try to avoid since python should be even more portable today than POSIX shell scripts are). Best regards, Christian -- kernel concepts GbRTel: +49-271-771091-14 Sieghuetter Hauptweg 48Fax: +49-271-771091-19 D-57072 Siegen http://www.kernelconcepts.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ evolution-hackers mailing list evolution-hackers@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
[Evolution-hackers] evolution-kolab: on (Unit) testing again
Hi all, regarding Unit-testing our plugin, we've settled on the GLib Testing framework and Unit tests written in C. Now, when doing integration testing, we will certainly try to automate a few things. Question is: does there exist a preferred scripting tool / language within the Evolution community for doing integration testing? I assume there is no preference so far, but maybe there are some thoughts about which route the Evolution project would like to take in future. Within our project it has been brought up that POSIX shell scripts might be a good choice in order to keep a low profile depencency-wise. Personally, I would prefer a higher-level scripting language which will offer more facility (esp. when it comes to mocking certain services or other complex things which will be a little bit painful to do in shell scripts). Nonetheless, I can perfectly understand the reasons if one prefers POSIX shell or something the like. This is not meant to start holy wars. Still, I'd be interested in opinions (specially from the elders here :) about the topic so we can make a good decision. Many greetings, Christian -- kernel concepts GbRTel: +49-271-771091-14 Sieghuetter Hauptweg 48Fax: +49-271-771091-19 D-57072 Siegen http://www.kernelconcepts.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ evolution-hackers mailing list evolution-hackers@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
Re: [Evolution-hackers] evolution-kolab: on (Unit) testing again
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 15:54 +0200, Christian Hilberg wrote: Within our project it has been brought up that POSIX shell scripts might be a good choice in order to keep a low profile depencency-wise. Personally, I would prefer a higher-level scripting language which will offer more facility (esp. when it comes to mocking certain services or other complex things which will be a little bit painful to do in shell scripts). Nonetheless, I can perfectly understand the reasons if one prefers POSIX shell or something the like. I think Python would be the most palatable choice for GNOME software. And you should be able to rig up a mock service pretty easily with the libraries it provides. ___ evolution-hackers mailing list evolution-hackers@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
