Perhaps we could add a [TEST] category to BFAV.  If the tests get moved into the
update stream, then beginners and other less wizardly people (like me) could feel that they are making useful contributions to the project just by creating test cases.

We could count contributions by each user on a web page somewhere; maybe it could be a contest for those ego driven types.

-----Original Message-----
From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
[mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of
stéphane ducasse
Sent: September 18, 2004 4:34 PM
To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
Subject: Re: Stopping to harvest easy to test enh without tests!



On 18 sept. 04, at 22:16, Brad Fuller wrote:

> Stef, I agree with you that tests are important. I'm not suggesting 
> that they are not. I'm saying that I agree with Alexander: to get 
> people to do them, make it part of the process so that they have to do 
> them.

Excatly but as I cannot change the process, I'm just on strike now :)

>
> stéphane ducasse wrote:
>
>> Come on brad.  This is a bit too easy to blame the process, I wrote a 
>> tutorial only for the purpose that people can understand and write 
>> tests.  So this is clear that an hyper genial tool would help to push 
>> the idea of tests but right now we do not have it. Still tests are 
>> important.
>>
>> Stef
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>>
>> On 18 sept. 04, at 19:43, Brad Fuller wrote:
>>
>>> I don't want to speak for Alexander, but I'm going to go out on a 
>>> limb here: I believe he agrees with you that the test can be simple 
>>> and should be included. By suggesting a process, Alexander is 
>>> strongly implying that it isn't the people at fault -- the system is 
>>> the cause of the problem and the cause of the solution. If we want 
>>> to improve the situation, improve the system.
>>>
>>> brad
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