On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 02:59:05PM -0700, SJS wrote:
Some open-source projects welcome bug reports from users, and a report of "it doesn't work with error message $X" gets a prompt reply and some questions from a developer. Those projects are *fun* for end-users to report bugs for, as it lets them contribute.
Being able to report: "make tests reports a failure in t0025" does make for good tests. Part of the difficulty is that some kinds of projects are just easier to test in isolation. Git has a good test suite, but it, by nature, is the kind of thing that is very easy to script. Something interactive or gui based is a lot harder to test. For a lot of code I've written, I've had to create large frameworks around them to be able to test them. I still think it was worth it, though. But, it was a lot of work. David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
