[Opensim-dev] Another idea for the OpenSimulator 0.7 roadmap - increased automated unit test / regression testing

[Teravus Ovares]

OMG ++

Teravus


On 8/29/08, Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> In addition to the ideas that MW (and others) have discussed, I'd also
> like to put forward the idea of increasing our level of automated unit
> and regression tests for the 0.7 release.
>
> Previously I was more in favour of pushing forward quickly rather than
> spending too much time test writing (and I think this was how it was
> when I joined the project).  However. we're now approaching the point
> where a reasonable amount of functionality has been filled out in
> OpenSim (at least from the Second Life POV).  Greater reliability is
> going to be necessary if the platform is going to be used seriously for
> grid and enterprise level activity.   Naturally, there's a level of
> self/company-interest here ;-) but I think that spending time on this
> will benefit many if not all of us.
>
> Of course, automated tests certainly won't be a perfect safety net but
> hopefully it would help to improve OpenSim by catching the revisions in
> which regressions are introduced.  This will also mean refactoring will
> be much less error prone.  I'm most probably preaching to the choir here.
>
> I think that part of this will mean pushing the test results from builds
> into the IRC channel (as already discussed with Sean), and making test
> results more prominent (perhaps even on the opensimulator.org front page?)
>
> Personally, I hope to start putting some of FRI's coding time where my
> mouth is and start doing some work towards this this later on next month.
>
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