Re: Add a testing framework

Hi,
Welcome to the list, and nice to hear your interest. Were you able to
build AbiWord and complete the additional requirement [1]? Did you go
through the existing samples [2]? Do you plan to use them, or update
them? As I can see, they were not updated for a long time. If you can
provide test cases with your application, depicting your expertise,
that would be an advantage.

The project also includes the platform code (win/cocoa/gtk) too, in
addition to the cross-platform code. You will also have to cover them
in the test suite, mentioning how will you handle this for multiple
operating systems.

[1] http://www.abisource.com/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2013#Additional_Requirements
[2] http://svn.abisource.com/abiword-testsuite/trunk/

Regards,
Pradeeban.

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:44 AM, tina_cas Yin <tinaincas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am Tina. I am quite interested on the idea: Add a testing framework
>
> I found that there was no much test on ABiword. Firstly, I would like
> to use CppUnit to cover some Unit test case on platform free code.
>
> Unit test is important to a open source code. Unit Tests have several
> benefits to us. It allows us changing code quickly under full testing.
> By running unit tests, a developer can identify whether his latest
> changes to the code base has broken anything. Unit Tests can also help
> new developers really understand the design of the code and it can
> give our developers visual feedback about which lines are covered.
>
> At least three things should be done:
> 1. add some unit test case
> 2 add script to automatically run it
> 3 help other developers to add their own unit test case
>
>
> Any opinion?
>
> Tina

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