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

[Matthias Kuhn]

Thanks for pointing this out Luigi,

I changed the page title to include the term QGIS and that led to a new 
URL. I just fixed it with an alias, so everything works again.

Best,
Matthias


On 10/11/2014 02:10 PM, Luigi Pirelli wrote:
> Appears the way to donate but appear also this message:
>
> Page not found
> The requested page
> "/10102014-1046/crowdfunding-initiative-automated-testing" could not
> be found.
>
> 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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