Yesterday I’ve deployed my jhbuild buildbot prototypes:
- Fisterra buildbot: it compiles the CVS HEAD for Fisterra Distribution and Fisterra Garage. It also has some unit tests integrated in fisterra-base. You can check coverage of last results.
- Gtk with unit tests buildbot: this is a playground to add unit tests implemented with Check in gtk+. These tests have been developed by Iago Toral (read his post, browse his tests).
Code coverage measure consists on counting the portion of code being executed by a set of tests. It gives a quantitative measure of the paths of code covered by our tests, and it’s specially useful for unit testing. One of the purposes of Gnome Build Brigade is adding this kind of measures to the continuous integration loop. This way, we can encourage developers to increase their marks, or even make parallel teams add new tests to the core libraries of Gnome. This would make Gnome more reliable, I think.
Then, if you want to polish your library or project, please add some pretty tests. If you want help on Check, just contact us in #build-brigade gnome irc channel. Better quality in Gnome deserves this!
PS: it seems the link to Iago Toral’s test is not working (Bonsai seems to get in troubles when a module has some symbols like +). You can get the source of the tests in our CVS (CVSROOT :pserver:anonymous@cvs.igalia.com:/var/publiccvs MODULE gtk+).