[nycbug-talk] eurobsdcon

[Pete Wright]

Brown, James (Jim) wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: G.Rosamond [mailto:george at sddi.net]
>>Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 10:31 PM
>>To: Jan Schaumann
>>Cc: NYC Bug List
>>Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] eurobsdcon
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>>On May 23, 2004, at 10:25 PM, Jan Schaumann wrote:
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>>>Dru <dlavigne6 at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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>>>>-contributing documentation, tutorials, reviews
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>>>This is one point that can't be stressed enough.  Documentation is
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>Documentation is important, but there is a more critical need, IMHO.
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>Open Source software needs reliable testing frameworks.  Most Open
>Source projects of substance are large (> 50K lines of code) and
>most do not have a reliable, rigorous testing framework. 
>My perception is that Open Source testing consists mainly of just
>getting as many people as possible to run the project code
>and submit bug reports.  While helpful, this is spotty testing.
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>The Perl Test Harness is a step in the right direction.  
>Test programs are written for specific features of a module
>and compared against expected output.  These can be run by
>anyone, on any hw/sw platform that runs Perl.
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>The BIND 9 test suite is another good example, although in this
>case, it's not easy to set up and run.
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>Consider challenging the Open Source community to develop testing
>frameworks for every project.  'make test' should perform a 
>complete suite of tests for the project that can be reused
>for every release.
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yea i totally agree with you there.  and hopefully OSDL has started to 
take on this role, and maybe other organizations will follow.  i do not 
even know of any opensource software testing out there, is there any?



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