A valiant effort, Sam! Would love to hear more about your personal experience tackling a legacy component w/ a TDD approach when all is said and done.
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 6:45 AM, Bahodir Mansurov <bmansu...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Looks interesting! > > On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 14:52 +0100, Sam Smith wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I've been encouraged to write an update on a 1%* project that I've > > been > > working on: separating the HTML formatter and APIs from the Minerva > > skin. > > > > Right now, I've created a new extension, which contains the code, > > associated configuration variables, and unit/integration tests [0] > > and am > > running it alongside a cut down version of the MobileFrontend > > extension [1] > > locally. > > > > My long-term goal is to further separate out the HTML formatter into > > a > > versioned library and to version the API extension so that we can > > make > > smaller, more easily reasoned about changes to smaller, more easily > > reasoned about components and update the (relative) titan that is the > > MobileFrontend extension more responsibly. > > > > My short-term goals are: > > > > * to *cover* the new extension in integration tests so that I can > > make > > structural changes > > * to get the unit tests passing without hitting the DB > > * to document the new extension thoroughly > > * to reduce the binding between the two extensions to exactly one > > call [2] > > * to get the extension deployed > > > > Cool? Cool! > > > > –Sam > > > > * Not a typo > > > > [0] https://github.com/phuedx/MobileView > > [1] https://github.com/phuedx/mediawiki-extensions-MobileFrontend > > [2] > > https://github.com/phuedx/mediawiki-extensions > > -MobileFrontend/blob/dd9e99e0f805812914b8d3266dc17239b2968a24/include > > s/MobileFrontend.body.php#L38 > > _______________________________________________ > > Mobile-l mailing list > > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > -- EN Wikipedia user page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brian.gerstle IRC: bgerstle
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