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• Launchpad Entry: desktop-maverick-gwibber-test-suite

• Created: 2010-05-03

• Contributors: KenVanDine

• Packages affected: gwibber

Summary

Gwibber lacks a unit testing framework, which is a significant exposure to regressions. It is important that we begin to build that so we can grow a library of unit tests to help prevent regressions in future versions.

Release Note

This change won't be visible to the end user, but is a critical part of the software development cycle.

Rationale

Unit testing is necessary to spot regressions in future versions.

Design

You can have subsections that better describe specific parts of the issue.

Implementation

* Create the framework for setup, tear down, and execution of tests. * Write tests for methods used heavily, should probably start with the more internal classes which have wide spread impact. * Consider code coverage analysis

Code Changes

Gwibber will need to be modified to help facilitate injecting tests.

Migration

None

Unresolved issues

No unit testing framework chosen yet, there are a few prominent choices for python. This spec does not include testing for libgwibber, but rather the gwibber infrastructure consumed by libgwibber. We will still need to address libgwibber.

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