[Qgis-user] Crowdfunding Project: Automated tests for QGIS

[Luigi Pirelli]

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regards, Luigi Pirelli

On 10 October 2014 13:58, Matthias Kuhn <matthias.kuhn at gmx.ch> wrote:
> Dear QGIS users,
>
> I started a crowd-funding campaign for automated unit tests in QGIS. Please
> consider to help funding this project in order to improve the software and
> code quality in the long run. More details can be found on the project page
> and in the text below.
>
> http://blog.vitu.ch/10102014-1046/crowdfunding-initiative-automated-testing
>
> I plan to improve the quality of QGIS sustainably by introducing the
> automatic execution of test procedures which will inform responsible
> developers automatically in case of failure. Your support for this project
> is highly welcome and you can contribute to make QGIS more stable in the
> long run. To implement the necessary changes as well as repairing currently
> broken tests a minimal amount of CHF 5000.- will be required. The following
> paragraphs will describe the project in more detail.
>
> ----------
>
> In the last years, QGIS matured from a hobby project to a serious
> alternative with a broad scope of possibilities and a great potential.
>
> With the constant addition of new features new possibilities have been
> created and still are created. Every new feature means changes to the source
> code of the software and is a potential source of errors.
>
> There are possibilities to automatically detect errors. This is done by
> executing a series of operations with known result. If a operation does not
> return the desired (known) result something went wrong and it needs to be
> evaulated why.
>
> QGIS has currently over 100 different tests. However, these are not run
> regularly and nobody realizes when tests fail. This led to the situation,
> that at the moment approximately 2/3 of the tests do not report success and
> nobody knows why and since when.
>
> I intend to take the following measures to ensure that in the future tests
> no longer can silently fail:
>
> * tests will be run on all source code changes in master (main development
> branch)
>
> * tests will be run on all pull requests (changes being evaluated for
> integration in master)
>
> * if tests fail the responsible developers will be notified by mail
>
> * with symbols, the current state of the tests will be indicated
>
> With this system it is possible to react instantaneously when tests fail and
> to revert the responsible changes or to not even integrate these.
>
> To make sure that this system works and is accepted, it is important to
> start with a working suite of tests. How much time it takes to fix all tests
> is difficult to say. The plan is therefore to fix as many tests with the
> available funds and to disable the rest of the tests in the first time.
> Therefore additional funds that are provided on top of the required minimum
> CHF 5000.- will be very welcome for additional working tests.
>
> It would be great if this crowd-funding effort could help to get this
> project to fly.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Matthias Kuhn
>
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