Ok, looks like we're a goer for PHPUnit and a bug hunt on 13 September. Feel free to drum up support !
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 10:36:12AM +0100, Caius Durling wrote: > > I'm around all day [GMT+1] (have just booked it in my calendar to make > sure I remember!) and have a moderate amount of experience with > PHPUnit, so I'd be quite happy to help out or lead the move to PHPUnit > and writing more tests =) > > C > -- > Caius Durling > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +44 (0) 7960 268 100 > http://caius.name/ > > > On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Michael C. Harris > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 09:37:28AM +1000, Michael C. Harris wrote: > >> It's been a while since we had a bug hunt - pre-0.4 iirc - so I > >> propose that we schedule one. As an added bonus, I think we should > >> combine a bug hunt with an effort to round out our current test suite. > >> > >> Any interest ? When would be good ? Maybe 6 or 13 September ? > > > > My idea was that while we were building new tests to round out our > > test coverage, we would also use the test creation as a way to > > encourage consistency across our APIs. For example, we should make > > sure that the Post and Posts API works in a way consistent with Tag > > and Tags. API stability is obviously a pre-requisite for going 1.0. > > One reason for not doing this on 13 September is that Owen isn't > > available. > > > > Also on testing, we currently use a homegrown testing framework, and > > there has been some discussion on IRC recently about moving to > > PHPUnit. The obvious advantage of using what's basically the standard > > PHP test framework is that new developers are more likely to know how > > to write tests (and Habarists can develop transferable skills). We > > also don't have to maintain our own framework. The obvious > > disadvantage is that we have to rewrite our tests. > > > > Should we move to PHPUnit ? > > > > If so, should we continue with the bug hunt and try to get moved over > > to PHPUnit on 13 September ? > > > > -- > > Michael C. Harris, School of CS&IT, RMIT University > > http://twofishcreative.com/michael/blog > > IRC: michaeltwofish #habari > > > > > > > > > > -- Michael C. Harris, School of CS&IT, RMIT University http://twofishcreative.com/michael/blog IRC: michaeltwofish #habari --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
