Re: Add a testing framework

Hi Kathiravelu,

I have successfully built Abiword on my latop. I will attach the
screenshot on my proposal.

about the testing samples on [2], I don't know how to run them. and
there are not a lot of test cases. If I found the method to reuse
them, I will reuse them and add my own samples.

I was reading a UNIT test blog about ABiword unit test [1]
and I try to figure out the UNIT test case like [3]

about the platform code, I would like to cover them using the
regression test case on [2]

 [1]  http://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/?2004/12/31/42-abiword-unit-testing-in-progress
 [2]  http://svn.abisource.com/abiword-testsuite/trunk/
 [3]  http://www.abisource.com/wiki/Unit_Test

Tina

2013/4/17 Kathiravelu Pradeeban <[email protected]>:
> Hi,
> Welcome to the list, and nice to hear your interest. Were you able to
> build AbiWord and complete the additional requirement [1]? Did you go
> through the existing samples [2]? Do you plan to use them, or update
> them? As I can see, they were not updated for a long time. If you can
> provide test cases with your application, depicting your expertise,
> that would be an advantage.
>
> The project also includes the platform code (win/cocoa/gtk) too, in
> addition to the cross-platform code. You will also have to cover them
> in the test suite, mentioning how will you handle this for multiple
> operating systems.
>
> [1] http://www.abisource.com/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2013#Additional_Requirements
> [2] http://svn.abisource.com/abiword-testsuite/trunk/
>
> Regards,
> Pradeeban.
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:44 AM, tina_cas Yin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am Tina. I am quite interested on the idea: Add a testing framework
>>
>> I found that there was no much test on ABiword. Firstly, I would like
>> to use CppUnit  to cover some Unit test case on platform free code.
>>
>> Unit test is important to a open source code. Unit Tests have several
>> benefits to us. It allows us changing code quickly under full testing.
>> By running unit tests, a developer can identify whether his latest
>> changes to the code base has broken anything. Unit Tests can also help
>> new developers really understand the design of the code and it can
>> give our developers visual feedback about which lines are covered.
>>
>> At least three things should be done:
>> 1. add some unit test case
>> 2  add script to automatically run it
>> 3  help other developers to add their own unit test case
>>
>>
>> Any opinion?
>>
>> Tina
>
>
>
> --
> Kathiravelu Pradeeban.
> Postgraduate Student,
> Erasmus Mundus European Master in Distributed Computing,
> Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal.
>
> Blog: [Llovizna] http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/