Hi Ingrid, I would be interested in hearing more about the code-writing requirements for unit testing. I am a professional web and database technician, and as such work daily in perl and create a lot of original code in the process. You can't always "borrow" what you need ... 8-) In the process of my work I tend to create drafts of functions in the script I am working on and as soon as I see a need to re-use it, promote it into a library package, centralizing and optimizing and basically following Larry Wall's Principle of Laziness. My code is generally sprinkled with eval{ }; if( $@ ){ }; block pairs. I have an affection for Java (my other language of choice), and the eval{}; blocks most nearly approximate the try-catch structures required in Java. But these are generally "in-line" error control-correction approaches. Unit testing implies to mind code which programmaticaly attacks existing drafts of code and gives them a good "shake down". Is this more in the nature of the approach you mean to describe? I guess what I am asking for is a brief essay on "unit testing" per se, and a bit about what your approach to implementing and establishing such for Koha will entail. And not to leave you hanging too long, I *am* interested in doing some of the work. It would be nice to have a clear idea of what that wil be. cheers, Erik On March 26, 2003 05:36 pm, Ingrid Lacis wrote:
Testers are needed for Koha.
Your server or mine.
No technical experience is necessary.
We are looking for both Acceptance Testers - using the software in the role of librarians and patrons
and quoting from Pat Eyler
"On the development side, we also need experienced testers to help write code level functional and unit tests for a 'regression test suite'. The plan is that this suite is run at least daily against the Koha code base to ensure that we're not introducing new bugs, or re-opening old ones while we make changes and additions to Koha."
Thank you
Ingrid
Ingrid Lacis The Cherry Hill Company ilacis@chillco.com
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