Re: GSoC Proposal 2

This is a stronger proposal IMHO.

We have loads of easy-to-test stuff in support/ and to a lesser degree
crypt/ where a breakage could break the whole node.

Higher level unit tests would also be pretty interesting. Once you've
added the infrastructure for some high-level tests, we could add new
ones relatively easily, and it also lets us do real-code simulations
with multiple nodes in a single VM and irrelevant layers disabled.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 03:44:43PM +0100, Sback wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  this is the second proposal. As before comments will be appreciated!
> 
>  Thanks in advance ;)
> 
>  Sback
> 
> **************************************************************************
> Alberto Bacchelli
> [email protected]
> 
> Project Title:
> Freenet Test Suite creation and current unit tests improvement
> 
> Abstract:
> Currently there are only few tests in the repository (less than 15 classes,
> about 1 test method per class and often used without JUnit support).
> It is a big problem when introducing new features into the project.
> The main goal of this project is to create an appropriate test
> suite for the project.
> Of course it is not possible -in three months- to cover all the project
> with tests, for this reason it is necessary to find the most runned code
> (maybe with the help of a profiler) and concentrate on that.
> With a software to quantify the tests code coverage then it will be
> possible to verify
> when a sufficient percentual will be reached.
> 
> Benefits to the Freenet Community:
> This project will enormously help further developing of
> the Freenet project giving a really better assurance that new features
> won't beake the current implementation.
> 
> Deliverables:
>  * Create specific method tests with a fine granularity on most used code
>  * Create tests with a bigger granularity to verify and quanitfy nodes
> quality
>  setting up multiple nodes in the same VM with different options.
> 
> Project Schedule:
> - Analysis of most used code througth profilers[e.g. 0,1] and developers
> point of view: 2/3 weeks (12/14 days)
> - Most used code test covering[e.g. 2,3]: 3/4 weeks (18/20 days)
> - Higher level tests: 3/4 weeks (18/20 days)
> 
> Brief Biography:
> I am a 24 years-old Italian student, currently doing my second MS year
> at the Universite` Libre de Bruxelles.
> I graduated "cum laude" in March 2006 with a thesis on the development
> of a Java based software for
> managing congressual events througth RFID cards.
> 
> I am also a system administrator in a little company in Italy and for
> two years I have been administrator for my university in a nonuniform
> cluster managing 2000 users and offering internal and external services.
> I have studied for six months with Professor Roel Wuyts[4] on tests
> based software engineering.
> 
> I am supporter of Agile software development and I am very focused on
> software engineering based on eXtreme Programming, which I think is the best
> development form for open source software: regular contributions on which
> you can run tests and get community feedbacks.
> 
> I support free software also because I like working with different
> people and listen different opinions to get the best from our
> heterogeneity to create something evolved.. When I get in touch with
> something new that I cannot understand fully, I usually prefer to get
> involved with it and explore it to find my own critic.
> 
> 
> [0] http://ejp.sourceforge.net/
> [1] http://jcoverage.sourceforge.net/
> [2] http://csdl.ics.hawaii.edu/Tools/JBlanket/
> [3] http://hansel.sourceforge.net/
> [4] http://decomp.ulb.ac.be/roelwuyts/
> **********************************************************************8

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