[Qgis-psc] Comments from Strk on QGIS-Testsuite

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

> On 17 Feb 2016, at 12:32, Neumann, Andreas <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> As you may remember, Strk participated in the paid bug fixing program. He made some comments which I am forwarding to the board:
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> This bugfixing drive convinced me even more that QGIS needs to improve its testsuite framework: it was often difficult to figure out how to provide a test for a bug, there was no provision to write a test before fixing a bug (useful to prove the fix is needed), there is only python testing for the whole PostgreSQL provider and it is not automatically setup to run. Shall there be a budget to improve the situation, please let me know as I have a few ideas.
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> And here is the list of bugs that Strk fixed for us: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F6v4g8Ayb3wIt73rxFKD8h4B95MaTwt-eDit8YvReB0 <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F6v4g8Ayb3wIt73rxFKD8h4B95MaTwt-eDit8YvReB0> 
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> So the testsuite is definitely an area we could ask a potential QGIS grant person to work on.
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> 
Yes this would be a very worthwhile thing to do - though I would like to finish figuring out our strategy for funding etc before we make any decisions on this right now - I’d like us to all be in general agreement as to how we manage funds and what our objectives are.

Regards

Tim

> Greetings,
> Andreas
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Tim Sutton
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