Re: Clover Fight! :-)

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:35 am, Jason van Zyl wrote:
> This is meant to be a friendly jibe :-)

:)

> Bob and I have been having clover fights lately as I have only really
> started doing TDD in the last three weeks I guess I'm lost in the
> novelty of it all.

Its one of those instantaneous feedbacks that makes it feel like your making 
progress ;)

> At any rate, I have taken Plexus from a horrible 20% coverage a couple
> weeks ago to this:
>
> http://plexus.codehaus.org/clover/index.html
>
> Talking to Paul Hammant and looking at stuff like xstream and qdox
> definitely lit a fire under my ass.

I used to write a few tests for years but after looking at qdox I completely 
changed the way I did unit testing. Now most of my tests are close to the 
source, involve no external dependencies etc.

However my strategy has generally been to migrate code out of Loom into 
separate toolkits and then unit test the beejesus out of that code. For 
example the Salt, ClassLoader, Policy, Extension etc code has all gone 
through this process. So it will probably take some time to get our level of 
unit testing up significantly unless someone else takes the initiative (which 
Peter seems to be doing - yea!).

However I would recomend you drop some of the code in Plexus and make use of 
external libraries that are unit tested where possible. For example you have 
some code that duplicates functionality like that in Salt

http://spice.sourceforge.net/salt/

which I would recomend you use - but then I am biased ;)

> As noted by Paul it is much easier for others to be involved if you're
> well covered and that only makes sense. But I think in our particular
> case if our containers are covered I think we could more easily explore
> each others code and might eventually help toward a merger of more bits
> and pieces in the future.
>
> Clover fight!

done!  Just will take abit of time.

Also I would also recomend you run jester as coverage does not really measure 
how deep the tests are. Though then again running jester over your tests can 
be discouraging ;)


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Cheers,

Peter Donald
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