[Qgis-developer] Rethinking the testing and release procedure of QGIS

Pirmin Kalberer pi_ml at sourcepole.com
Tue Jul 12 03:20:10 EDT 2011


Am Montag, 11. Juli 2011, um 14.06:24 schrieb Ivan Mincik:
> On 07/11/2011 10:28 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:16:28PM +0200, Ivan Mincik wrote:
> >>>> Agreed: AFAICT this is a major task: any idea of how much work would
> >>>> be necessary for reasonable results? An order of magnitude would be
> >>>> enough for now.
> >>> 
> >>> I belive a 30k figure might get things going far enough that developers
> >>> could have a policy of no functional change and no bugfix w/out a test
> >>> accompanying would be allowed.
> >> 
> >> Sandro, You mean 30 000 EUR?
> > 
> > Yes. That'd be 6 man-months. Do you think I'm underestimating it ?
> 
> No, no. Just I was not sure if it means that. It is important to know
> exactly how much money we need to collect.


It could be dangerous to mix up Sandros estimation with the work for a 
complete QGIS test suite. QGIS is heavily GUI based which makes writing tests 
far more complex than writing tests for a pure data processing library like 
PostGIS e.g. My estimation is 2 to 3 man-years for a test coverage of 80%. 
Think of topologocal editing, interactive print composer, image comparison and 
so on.

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