[Koha] Testers Needed - about Unit Testing

[Erik Stainsby]

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 at chillco.com


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