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From: Peter Donald <peter@realityforge.org>
To: "Avalon Developers List" <dev@avalon.apache.org>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: avalon-excalibur/io/src/xdocs index.xml menu.xml
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:44:06 +1100
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:40, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
> Peter Donald wrote, On 11/03/2003 22.15:
> ...
>
> > ...backward incompatible
> > changes are all the rage in AValon these days. Supporting users is so=
oo
> > yesterday.
>
> It's not.
>
> We will support users as much as we can. We've said it before, we say i=
t
> again. Any incompatible change made was completely unintentional.

"saying" !=3D "doing"

> To catch these early (yes, Gump should be our *last* resort), we should
> have unit tests running regularly on the classes; they would have
> probably caught these signature changes.

doubtful their signatures would have just been updated at the same time.=20
Besides how many people actually run the unit tests - given the number of=
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"stable" packages that have/had unit tests that fail I don't think there =
is a=20
lot.=20

> What do you all think should be our unit test policy?

100% coverage and 100% passing for toolkits or as close to as possible. i=
e an=20
example of good quality would be =20
http://spice.sourceforge.net/configkit/clover/index.html=20

For integration components and containers we probably can't reasonably as=
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stringent but should aim for high quality rather than this lets just chan=
ge=20
something and hope it compiles ... let alone works policy that is now in=20
place.=20

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Cheers,

Peter Donald
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