From: "Avdi Grimm" <avdi@avdi.org>
To: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>
Cc: Ben Alexander <bva@alexanderonline.org>,
emacs-orgmode Org-Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How you can help
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:42:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ecbcf0fb0810230942v5aa8f67cp7938138f0437bac7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6679t1t.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ>
A few points, from someone with a decent amount of testing background:
* As someone who has contributed to OS projects, the lack of a
pre-existing set of regression tests in org-mode is actually *the*
most significant blocker to my getting involved in org-mode
development. I do all of my coding - both professional and personal -
in the context of tests, and not having the existing framework means
that before I can start working on new features I first need to spend
time yak-shaving on testing infrastructure.
* I think there's a lot of over-thinking going on here. Here's the
test-first coding discipline in a nutshell:
1. Identify a problem/missing feature.
2. Write a test (possibly using a unit-testing framework to help)
which will pass when the bug has been fixed or feature added. This can
be as simple as calling a function and validating its return value.
3. Run the test. Verify it FAILS.
4. Write code to make the test PASS.
5. Refactor, if you introduced any code duplication in step 4.
6. Run all the tests, to make sure you didn't break anything else.
7. Commit.
If someone would be so kind as to identify a small bug or feature, I
would be happy to demonstrate this workflow in the form of code, time
permitting.
--
Avdi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-23 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-23 12:04 How you can help Ben Alexander
2008-10-23 13:43 ` Bernt Hansen
2008-10-23 15:04 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 15:49 ` Richard Riley
2008-10-23 16:22 ` Ben Alexander
2008-10-23 17:02 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-24 12:13 ` Richard Riley
2008-10-24 15:39 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-24 16:27 ` Manish
2008-10-24 18:41 ` Avdi Grimm
2008-10-23 19:13 ` Avdi Grimm
2008-10-24 12:19 ` Richard Riley
2008-10-23 16:19 ` Bernt Hansen
2008-10-24 5:05 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-23 17:01 ` Jason F. McBrayer
2008-10-23 23:46 ` Eric Schulte
2008-10-23 14:20 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 14:50 ` Manish
2008-10-23 15:46 ` Eric Schulte
2008-10-23 16:18 ` Avdi Grimm
2008-10-23 14:55 ` Ben Alexander
2008-10-23 16:26 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 16:42 ` Avdi Grimm [this message]
2008-10-23 17:33 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 19:10 ` Avdi Grimm
2008-10-24 21:09 ` Tom Breton (Tehom)
2008-10-24 18:33 ` Ben Alexander
2008-10-24 18:44 ` Avdi Grimm
2008-10-24 19:02 ` Jeff Mickey
2008-10-26 19:49 ` org-cycle broken when cursor is at ellipses Ben Alexander
2008-10-26 21:31 ` Cameron Horsburgh
2008-10-27 8:47 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-27 8:47 ` Carsten Dominik
[not found] ` <D43ED86C-EFD4-4BA8-8528-4F82DB11D625@alexanderonline.org>
2008-10-23 17:12 ` How you can help Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 15:08 ` Sebastian Rose
[not found] <E1Kt27M-0008Tx-0J@box188.bluehost.com>
2008-10-23 16:11 ` Robert Goldman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-23 7:35 Carsten Dominik
2008-10-23 8:12 ` Manish
2008-10-23 9:24 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 10:28 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 15:23 ` Russell Adams
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