As fate would have it, I might well be sitting in that very OSDW track. <br>
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The 4.0 release is exactly what I was thinking for a goal. Not
only does it give a year for integration, but the wholesale changes
with the porting efforts will be begging for standardized testing.<br>
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Further, such testing results with cppunit (which I'd love to see more
use of) et al might/should be a factor in the recent talks on
application certification (where such testing methods fit).<br>
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Once basic how-to documents, best practices, and examples are in
place...as always, I could sponsor a competition to see who implements
testing practices the best (architecturally or in defect reduction).<br>
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NOTE: If anyone is familiar with the RUP or Rational products, the
ability to generate test cases directly from requirements (req pro) or
UML design can be very beneficial to people, including code
coverage. Does Umbrello or KDevelop offer any plug-ins to assist?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/18/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Aaron J. Seigo</b> <<a href="mailto:aseigo@kde.org">aseigo@kde.org</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Thursday 18 August 2005 01:31, Wade Olson wrote:<br>> For those like myself that are not core developers, and since there's
<br>> obvious confusion on testing tactics, is there documentation on standard<br>> KDE testing practices that I can read, to help rebutt the next 30<br>> belly-achers on this thread (as we approach 2^7)?<br><br>
no, there isn't... this is something we certainly need to change and i think<br>it's at least a year long project. my hopes and plans are to encourage and<br>aid these things during the KDE4 development cycle. Lyceum is obviously one
<br>aspect to this as will be the materials coming out of OSDW. if you look at<br>the current speaker schedule at <a href="http://www.osdw.org/cms/1013">http://www.osdw.org/cms/1013</a> you will see we<br>have two talks on agile software practices including this one:
<br><br>Test Driven Development in C++ using FOSS tools<br>Starting with a gentile "What is Test Driven Development" introduction. The<br>tools focused on will be KUnitTest, and eXperior. CPPUnit and CXXUnit will
<br>also be discussed.<br>Jason Nocks<br><br>the plan is to aggregate the content that comes out of these OSDW events into<br>an eBook.<br><br>--<br>Aaron J. Seigo<br>GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43
<br><br>Full time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (<a href="http://www.trolltech.com">http://www.trolltech.com</a>)<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>