Thanks Anil. I checked the issue and think it would be great to have more such issues. However, since we are talking about students with little or no background, will it be useful to consolidate some links and examples on how tests have been implemented ? I can start by creating a project overview and share with students. Let me know what works best.
- Sandy Anil Patel-3 wrote: > > Sandy, > This is interesting. I have tried doing something similar institutions > around our Indore (India) office. > > Ofbiz has its system for implementing unit tests. Recently Jira issue > OFBIZ-2854 was created for unit test implementation. There are lots of > other similar jira issues that have been defined and implemented in > past. > > It will be nice if you can review these assets and let us know how we > can help with your plan. > 1) I (and few others from Hotwax Media) can help by reviewing the > contribution and commit them to trunk when they are ready. > 2) I know Sumit Pandit from our company is working on implementing > list of Unit tests for accounting component. He can be creating Jira > issues and students can provide implementations. > > Regards > Anil Patel > > On Aug 23, 2009, at 9:45 PM, SandyRay wrote: > >> >> Hi OFBiz Dev community, >> >> I am associated with a nascent collaborative initiative called Kenfuse >> (http://www.kenfuse.com). The effort is towards getting more and more >> students and junior developers get a taste of open source early on and >> decide for themselves. As part of the initiative we are working with >> graduate schools and structuring electives to be delivered formally >> so that >> the participation has a sense of direction ie students look forward >> to good >> grades if they do a good job besides picking up good skills of >> course and >> for institutes to prepare students on contemporary technologies and >> improve >> placements etc. Feedback from project mentors would influence their >> grades >> ;-). Much like Google Summer of Code , but with faculty involvement >> and >> incentive is grade and not cash :-( >> >> Given that background, I am working with faculty from a top school in >> Bangalore, India, who are looking to offer a focused course on open >> source >> testing this term. The course is planned to contain two distinct >> sections a) >> classroom teaching introducing the subject and covering the >> fundamentals b) >> practical hands on projects where student ramp up on a specific >> assigned >> project architecture and functionality, required testing tools for >> automation and work with mentors to develop automation that can be >> contributed back. My note is towards this later component. Would >> like to >> explore projects on ofbiz testing and test automation that can be a >> good >> learning for students and also double as contributions back to the >> project. >> The term for students start in another week or so and expected to be >> a class >> of over 40 with about 8-10 open source project participating as mentor >> organization. Term ends by late Nov. >> >> Also here is a link that can provide some high-level overview of the >> process >> http://www.kenfuse.com/content/kencampus >> >> If there are specific questions or clarifications required, I would >> be more >> than happy to respond to them. >> >> - Sandy >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Ofbiz-Testing---student-projects-tp25104687p25104687.html >> Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Ofbiz-Testing---student-projects-tp25104687p25121187.html Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
