[Owncloud] regarding quality

[Klaas Freitag]

On 29.06.2012 21:18, Thomas Müller wrote:
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> Am Freitag, dem 29.06.2012 um 14:20 schrieb Frank Karlitschek:
>> Hi everybody,
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>> the main problem our users mention about ownCloud is the number of bugs we have. I think we have to be more careful in the future about code quality if we want that more users use our software to manage their important documents and data.
>> We got a lot of bad press and feedback for ownCloud 4 and it took us several weeks to fix the major bugs in 4.0.4. We have to be way better in ownCloud 5.
>>
>> Robin, Thomas and others are working on automated unit tests. This will help us a bit in the future.
>> But automated test have only a limited effectivity in complex client/server/web environments like ours.
>> So every developer is full responsible for the bugs and security problems a commit might introduce. You can´t rely on a unit test or a different developer or user to find and fix your stuff.
>>
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> After building up the unit test suite to a necessary extend we shall start to think about going
> into integration testing and maybe even think about behavior driven test cases built on top of e.g. selenium.
I read a bit about Selenium and I think that might help us a lot and it 
feels lightweight to me for what its providing. Have you set it up and 
used it in another project yet? I think we really should work towards 
using that midterm.

regards,

Klaas