<div dir="ltr">All that talk of user-contributed and automated testing reminds be of CPAN. I know. I know. Perl is tired old tech to some. But perhaps in the far distant future the number of OpenSim modules might approach a level where a CPAN like repository of submission and testing conventions would even emerge. APIs and test trusses will make it easier for users to submit testing on different platforms in a conventional format, (something the Perl community really mastered, imho). I know it is a way off, but being able to dowload someone's module or contribution, plug it into my sim or even just a test truss and generate consumable test results is just too cool to not hope for someday. Justin, let me know if there is anything I can do to test the testing. ;)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Teravus Ovares <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:teravus@gmail.com">teravus@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>OMG ++</div>
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<div>Teravus<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/29/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Justin Clark-Casey</b> <<a href="mailto:jjustincc@googlemail.com" target="_blank">jjustincc@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">In addition to the ideas that MW (and others) have discussed, I'd also<br>like to put forward the idea of increasing our level of automated unit<br>
and regression tests for the 0.7 release.<br><br>Previously I was more in favour of pushing forward quickly rather than<br>spending too much time test writing (and I think this was how it was<br>when I joined the project). However. we're now approaching the point<br>
where a reasonable amount of functionality has been filled out in<br>OpenSim (at least from the Second Life POV). Greater reliability is<br>going to be necessary if the platform is going to be used seriously for<br>grid and enterprise level activity. Naturally, there's a level of<br>
self/company-interest here ;-) but I think that spending time on this<br>will benefit many if not all of us.<br><br>Of course, automated tests certainly won't be a perfect safety net but<br>hopefully it would help to improve OpenSim by catching the revisions in<br>
which regressions are introduced. This will also mean refactoring will<br>be much less error prone. I'm most probably preaching to the choir here.<br><br>I think that part of this will mean pushing the test results from builds<br>
into the IRC channel (as already discussed with Sean), and making test<br>results more prominent (perhaps even on the <a href="http://opensimulator.org" target="_blank">opensimulator.org</a> front page?)<br><br>Personally, I hope to start putting some of FRI's coding time where my<br>
mouth is and start doing some work towards this this later on next month.<br><br>--<br>justincc<br>Justin Clark-Casey<br><a href="http://justincc.wordpress.com" target="_blank">http://justincc.wordpress.com</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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