Github user rafaelweingartner commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/775#issuecomment-140915157
@ DaanHoogland, I understand you, I just commented that to show to
@nitin-maharana that âweâ (I) understand that writing a test case to a
method like that can be pretty hard, and that we are open to discuss and help
with that.
I just wanted to show support, because I have seen in other open source
projects people rejecting PRs, just because the guy that created the PR is not
well-known in the community and he/she had not written test cases for huge
methods in which the developer had just made a pretty small fix like
@nitin-maharana is doing. Most of the time developers debug the code, looking
for the crux of the problem he/she is having, find and fix it without knowing
the whole idea of the method, especially when methods have generic names,
perform a lot of tasks and do not have proper java docs.
For instance: when I read, âcleanupDomainâ, I do not fully understand
what the method is doing. Is it a periodical task that is intended to remove
dirty from domains? Is it meant to remove resources that are no longer used by
users of a domain?
I know that one of the tasks of that method is to remove/disable domains
and their sub-domains, but to disable/remove something for me is different from
cleaning something up.
Every time I review a code and see a clear opportunity to extract code and
write test cases I suggest that, but when that does not happens, I do not feel
comfortable asking for them and blocking a PR. That might not feel welcoming
for a new contributor that is devoting some of his/her time for free in a
project.
Bottom line is that we liked the job he has done and are here to help him
with ideas in how to write at least one test case for the change he has made.
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