Perhaps we can use the wiki to record consensus as they are reached. We might consider moving from traditional wrappers to dynamic proxies to do add in functionality as this allows the lower level functionality to stil lbe visible through the wrapper.
Claude On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Andy Seaborne <a...@apache.org> wrote: > May be discussion is better on dev@ while the wiki is good for creating > and collecting long term material but poor for discussion. > > I'm interested as time permits. > > It would be good to have these tests - example: I'd like to consider a > change (jena3) to the implementation of graph events to have the basic > graph not event-aware and add a wrapper to do the event triggers. It would > make extensions cleaner. The most basic graph interface is little more than > add/delete/find. Contract tests would pin down external functionality. > > Andy > > > On 06/08/14 18:46, Claude Warren wrote: > >> I think I have some time again to look at testing some more. The last >> time >> I dove into it I learned quite a bit, but I don't think I improved on the >> existing testing at all. >> >> However, with time to reflect and movement forward of the system I think >> that perhaps we should think about defining the SPI and what the contracts >> are for the SPI. >> >> I would like to take a crack at the following: >> >> 1) getting consensus on what classes/interfaces are part of the basic SPI >> (e.g. Graph interface / GraphBase class) >> 2) document the contracts for those classes. (e.g. adding a triple to >> graph >> triggers notification of listeners) >> 3) write contract tests for those classes/interfaces. ( >> https://github.com/Claudenw/junit-contracts) This should result in a set >> of tests that are simple to extend/implement and will ensure that >> implementations implement the entire contract correctly. >> >> With this in mind, what is the best forum for this discussion? Who is >> interested in participating in the discussions? Who is interested in >> helping to build the contract tests? >> >> I was thinking about the wiki as a place to hold the discussions. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Claude >> >> >> > -- I like: Like Like - The likeliest place on the web <http://like-like.xenei.com> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/claudewarren
