Re: [GNC-dev] GNUCASH Test Data
Chris Millsap, Chris Good There is some limited test and example data in the GnuCash sources .../gnucash-src/doc/examples. Not very extensive. These days a lot of testing effort is shifted towards unit tests rather than extensive overall functional tests although they still have a place. I would think there would be a serious problem in validation of a data set and then the maintenance issues you alluded to. Another difficulty would be defining a test data set which would cover the various feature sets adequately, e.g. business, trading, multicurrency etc. To define an adequate test data suite would also require an extensive knowledge of the code base in any case. Possible but is it really worth the effort? In accounting if major features like compliance with the accounting equation, zero sum for transaction splits are broken, then it will be generally obvious very quickly and the unit tests on the engine seem likely pick that up. What is it that you would wan't a test data suite to do that is not covered by the existing unit tests? David Cousens - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-Dev-f1435356.html ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: [GNC-dev] GNUCASH Test Data
Hi Chris (Millsap), My initial thoughts are that this would quickly become obsolete and developers would usually already have easy access to their own large data files, so would probably not be worth much effort. I'm not a Gnucash developer though and they probably have other ideas, so I've copied the developers mailing list. Thanks for the idea, Regards, Chris Good > On 11 Nov 2018, at 4:24 AM, Christopher Millsap > wrote: > > Hey everyone, I started working on a proof of concept for a program that > generates large amounts of test data (various account types with simulated > transaction histories) for testing gnucash. I was wondering if something like > this would really be useful for testing? > > Let me know what you think. > > Thanks. > > Chris. ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
[GNC-dev] Automatically split transactions with sales tax
Hello all, I would like Gnucash to automatically create a split transaction for sales tax when a taxable product is bought/sold. I deal with a lot of transactions, and its a pain to manually enter the sales tax for each one. I'd rather just work within the general ledger and have Gnucash do it automatically. For example, I buy a widget for $100 + 5% GST = $105. I want Gnucash to automatically create the split, and allocate $5.00 to the GST liability account. Of course, the ability to override the default 5% would be necessary. Is what I'm asking for possible? I'm not a programmer, so I realize this may be a dumb question. (Frist time on this mailing list, so apologies if I break etiquette) Thanks, Chris -- Chris Pearce - President Fernwood Tax Solutions Victoria, BC Regina,SK ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
