Supporting the harvesting process and Squeak

Jason Rogers jacaetevha at fast-mail.org
Fri May 17 15:17:00 UTC 2002


I would be interested in helping you.

On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 21:34, john-reed.x.maffeo at mail.sprint.com wrote:
> > -----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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