Supporting the harvesting process and Squeak

john-reed.x.maffeo at mail.sprint.com john-reed.x.maffeo at mail.sprint.com
Fri May 17 01:34:08 UTC 2002


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ducasse [mailto:ducasse at iam.unibe.ch]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 3:23 PM
> To: squeak-dev
> Cc: ducasse
> Subject: Supporting the harvesting process and Squeak
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm sorry to say that again but please try to understand that 
> if you want 
> to help the harvesters (I'm quite inactive now but when I see all the 
> material submitted tests I'm really thinking that this is 
> hopeless) you 
> should provide SUnit tests.
> 
> Even with tests we will have problems to see if your code is 
> not breaking 
> something else so at least a bunch of tests will help us 
> controlling and 
> documenting your changes.
> 
> I wrote an english version of an article that describes SUnit 
> so please 
> use SUnit. When you code something you test it to test if 
> this is working 
> so try to code it into a TestCase subclass methods instead of 
> a workspace.
> 
> Sometimes I'm sad that other communities can get this 
> important point and 
> not this one.
> 
> Stef
> 
> 
> 
Stef,

Please post a link to the article. I just submitted a bugfix with no 
tests and I would like to correct that oversight, but I am not sure I 
know how.

Thanks,

John-Reed




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