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From: "Avdi Grimm" <avdi@avdi.org>
To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info>
Subject: Re: Regression testing for org-mode
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:03:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ecbcf0fb0810231703h5ff1f8e9s2628c6eb8f5ada5b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wsfyx3tp.fsf@gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm pessimistic that the colossal amount of work involved in wrapping
> all of org-modes extensive and varied functionality into a test
> framework can/should actually be completed.  Would it be sufficient to
> simply begin dealing with bug reports in a test-first manner?

Absolutely.  I do NOT recommend making an effort to get test coverage
over existing code just for the sake of coverage - in my experience
this usually leads a lot of work for brittle and not terribly useful
tests.  Put tests only around the areas you are about to change.  Over
time the coverage will grow.

> Also, should we start tracking bug reports somewhere (worg), so that
> they can be claimed, tested against, and repaired?

Not a bad idea.  Normally I'd recommend just going with an established
bug tracker like Trac or Lighthouse, but since Org is so great for
managing tasks it seems only right that the developers should "eat
their own dogfood" by using Org to track tickets :-)

-- 
Avdi

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-24  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-23 16:03 Regression testing for org-mode Robert Goldman
2008-10-23 23:57 ` Eric Schulte
2008-10-24  0:03   ` Avdi Grimm [this message]
2008-10-24  2:41     ` Robert Goldman
2008-10-24  3:04       ` worg for bug reports and feature requests was: (Regression testing for org-mode) Eric Schulte
2008-10-24  4:42         ` Robert Goldman
2008-10-24 14:12           ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-24 14:27             ` Avdi Grimm
2008-10-24 20:44             ` Eric Schulte
2008-10-24 23:54               ` Eric Schulte

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