Yes, testing is sorely needed. I started down the path of finding the best solution for Vala Unit Testing, but couldn't find any great options. Currently, all projects that pursued the xUnit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUnit) model for Vala have fallen out of development and only their shells remain. I reached out to the Yorba devs, who appear to hold a repository for the old 'valadate' project but they are in the same position we are in. I believe they have done some testing with the built-in GObject unit test suite ( https://live.gnome.org/Vala/TestSample), but it has been found to be severely lacking by anyone who knows anything about unit testing.
As with most OSS developers, I started to scratch that itch and realized that it is a little bit beyond my skill set. The code I started to write remains unusable, rotting away somewhere on one of my hdd platters in a folder called 'vunit'. If anyone is interested in starting a Vala Unit Test project under the umbrella of the elementary community, I'm sure we could get quite a bit of traction from the Vala community at large and I would love to help out. On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff < ser...@elementaryos.org> wrote: > This is what I've developed for testing: > https://lists.launchpad.net/elementary-dev-community/msg01948.html > > I've also created Glimpse - a system for sandboxed testing, but it lacks a > D-bus proxy which is needed for adding/removing apps via GUI. See > http://shnatsel.blogspot.com/2011/07/weve-just-revolutionized-alpha-testing.htmland > http://shnatsel.blogspot.com/2012/05/state-of-glimpse.html > > I don't think we have any unit testing in place yet. Midori probably has > but that's it. > > > 2013/4/4 Craig <webe...@gmail.com> > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I'm curious what you devs do for testing? I'm not particularly familiar >> with Vala, but I'm learning a lot about testing at work and I'm trying to >> develop myself to that end in my free time. I'm sending this email because >> I'd like to get a pulse on what you Elementary devs think about testing and >> what you actually do to test your code. Also, please feel encouraged to >> talk about what you've done in the past, what has/hasn't worked for you, >> and generally what your philosophy is about testing (or whether you have no >> philosophy). Individual comments and comments on behalf of elementary as a >> whole are both welcome. >> >> Sound off! >> >> Thanks, >> Craig >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > > -- > Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff > OS architect @ elementary > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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