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Re: Which files suffer from a complete lack of tests?


From: Michael Albinus
Subject: Re: Which files suffer from a complete lack of tests?
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 08:46:06 +0100
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Artur Malabarba <address@hidden> writes:

> On 28 Oct 2015 7:20 pm, "Michael Albinus" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>> Last year, I've started to write vc-tests.el. I have not enough
>> knowledge about vc to do it on my own, but I was enouraged by Eric
>> Raymond to do so. Unfortunately, he stopped to support me after a while,
>> so the work is stalled since then.
>
> Still, did you get to push this partial progress? 

Everything which I had done that time is pushed to the repo.

>> If somebody with more knowledge about vc than me would join that work, I
>> would be willing to continue. Could you help me with this? Other
>> volunteers?
>
> I'm not a user of vc, but let us know your questions, maybe I can help
> with some. Or maybe a vc user will jump in (this list is full of them ;
> -). Really, don't be afraid to ask.

Will do.

>> In parallel, it might be useful to work on Bug#19548. As Glenn said, the
>> documentation lacks the changes which have been applied last year.
>
> Documentation is certainly another good way to help.

In this case it is important, because the behaviour of the functions
differ sometimes from what is documented, and I'm uncertain whom to
believe when asserting the test results. For the time being I have
accepted most of the results (modulo some few obvious errors, which I
did fix in vc-*.el), but maybe the checks are too weak, and there are
still some problems in vc-*.el, which are uncovered by this strategy of
vc-tests.el.

Best regards, Michael.



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