Re: How you can help

[Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>]

"Avdi Grimm" <avdi@avdi.org> writes:
> A few points, from someone with a decent amount of testing background:

Jippie! Please stay with us for a few days :-D

> * 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.

Sounds great! Not shure if we can provide a bug though :-D


Bug anyone?



Hm - how about:

1. A not yet existent elisp file test-worg.el, that defines a function
hello-worg, and a variable lang, and simply puts "Hello Worg"into the
minibuffer (if (string= lang "en")) and "Hallo Worg" (if (string= lang
"de")) ?



Did you work with unit-testing frameworks for elisp already?
Which one?
Recommendations?
Could say something about the effort to get started with such a
framework?

Can we add it without changing Org's code? If understand 2. correctly - yes?

If we can, would we loose quality/speed of tests?
How much?


Tell us all :-)


Oha - I have an appointment (concert) - back tonight!


All the best,

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