Hi,

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Yury Katkov <katkov.ju...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jeroen! I looked at some tests and I see that they are indeed
> pretty easy to understand and write. I have a question now: how do you
> fill the database for the tests and clean it up afterwards? Probably
> we can contribute a little bit to SMW and semantic extensions writing
> tests.
>
>
The unit tests create temporary tables themselves to work with, so no
cleanup required :)


> Still I see that non-unit tests are also useful: by creating mega-form
> and super-page with all result formats we were able to detect many
> problems in our extensions and bugs in our skin.
>
>
I agree non-unit tests are useful, but unit tests will catch bugs a lot
earlier.

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> Yury Katkov
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroended...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > In an effort to increase quality of SMW (by reducing the amount of bugs)
> and
> > facilitating future development (by regression detection) I've been
> adding
> > unit tests to SMW. Not that many, but at least we now got some coverage.
> > Nischyan has also been added a bunch as part of his GSoC project. And I'm
> > now looking into getting a CI server up running these unit tests and the
> > Selenium tests Benedikt Kämpgen wrote over a year ago.
> >
> > I encourage everyone concerned with the quality of SMW to contribute
> their
> > tests in a form that can be used by people working on the software. It's
> > nice if you spot regressions on your site between releases, but it's way
> > better to not have these regressions happen in the first place :)
> >
> > If anyone has or questions on how to create them, I'd be happy to help
> you
> > getting them into SMW.
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > --
> > Jeroen De Dauw
> > http://www.bn2vs.com
> > Don't panic. Don't be evil.
> > --
>
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