cvs: phpweb / ideas.php

sebastian Sun Feb 25 15:43:09 2007 UTC Modified files: /phpweb ideas.php Log: Add "Support for Mutation Testing in PHPUnit". http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/phpweb/ideas.php?r1=1.7&r2=1.8&diff_format=u Index: phpweb/ideas.php diff -u phpweb/ideas.php:1.7 phpweb/ideas.php:1.8 --- phpweb/ideas.php:1.7 Sat Dec 9 23:31:17 2006 +++ phpweb/ideas.php Sun Feb 25 15:43:09 2007 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <?php -// $Id: ideas.php,v 1.7 2006/12/09 23:31:17 nlopess Exp $ +// $Id: ideas.php,v 1.8 2007/02/25 15:43:09 sebastian Exp $ $_SERVER['BASE_PAGE'] = 'ideas.php'; include_once $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/include/prepend.inc'; site_header("SoC Ideas"); @@ -74,6 +74,21 @@ <br/> <strong>Possible mentor(s)</strong>: (not yet assigned)</p> +<hr/> + +<a name="other"></a> +<h2>Other</h2> + +<h3>Support for Mutation Testing in PHPUnit</h3> +<p><strong>Description</strong>: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing">Mutation Testing</a>, +or Automated Error Seeding, is an approach where the testing tool makes some +change to the tested code, runs the tests, and if the tests pass displays a +message saying what it changed. This approach is different than code coverage +analysis, because it can find code that is executed by the running of tests but +not actually tested. It is not meant as a replacement for code coverage analysis, +but complementary.<br/>More information can be found +<a href="http://www.phpunit.de/wiki/Ideas#SupportforMutationTesting">here</a>. +<br/><br/><strong>Possible mentor(s)</strong>: <a href="mailto:sebastian@php.net">Sebastian Bergmann</a></p> <!-- Note: SoC 2006 Ideas. these need to be either ported to the "new style" or cleaned up