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[Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>]

Since I am off for the week I might look into it as well.

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Robin Cook

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 15:15 -0800, Andrew wrote:
> Would anyone else like to volunteer? This position is open to as many
> people as are willing to help.
> 
> -Andrew
> 
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 08:18:28PM -0800, Andrew Stitt wrote:
> > Are you looking for a way to get involved with SourceMage? Do you want to
> > learn more about sorcery and become one of the few, the proud, the
> > /Sorcery Hackers/? :-)
> > 
> > Well the sorcery team (dufflebunk mostly) has embarked on a project to
> > write "unit tests" for most of the internal sorcery functions, and we're
> > looking for volunteers to help out.
> > 
> > You can work at whatever pace best works for you, this work can be done
> > easily in quick 10-20 minute segments if that is all that time allows
> > for you. It is a very flexible project to work on, and everything you do
> > has a direct impact on helping maintain sorcery stability. Also since
> > you'll be learning about all of sorcery's internals you'll be a good
> > fit for continuing work on Sorcery :)
> > 
> > What you'll be doing is picking up individual functions (or libraries
> > if you're ambitious) and learning how they work, what they do (and/or
> > asking dufflebunk or I about them). Then writing some simple tests
> > within our unit test framework [0] to verify that individual functions
> > do what they say they do.
> > 
> > This is a great way to get involved with sorcery without having to worry
> > at all about accidentally breaking something (thats what I do btw ;)).
> > Its also a good way to learn more about bash, which I feel is really
> > a language best learned by working on something that already uses it.
> > 
> > This is a big project since sorcery has a fairly high number of functions
> > (and why we would like some help). The eventual goal is to have some
> > boiler plate tests to run that ensure that a particular change hasnt
> > broken anything. Its better to find out problems that way than by having
> > someones box break, and in many cases its easier than trying to cast
> > a bunch of different things to exercise the changed codepaths. Also,
> > by coming up with interesting scenario's we can find bugs in functions
> > we wouldnt have otherwise noticed.
> > 
> > Anyways, if you have an interest in helping out with this send me an
> > email, or ping me on irc in #sourcemage or #sorcery.
> > 
> > -Andrew
> > 
> > [0] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=SorceryUnitTests
> > 
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