Re: Where to begin testing?

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:28 PM, zoe <zoe.slattery@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Eric > > It's a really good question. You can start by looking at the coverage data > (gcov.php.net) which tells you what lines are covered. This gives *some > indication* of what might not be well enough tested. Anything less than 80% > covered is probably missing tests. > > If you look at the coverage and see something that you'd like to work on - > then probably the next thing is to find out what tests exist for it already > (they are all in the source tree) and look at the docs to see what functions > don't have specific tests. > > Mac is quite a useful platform to work on - another thing you might be > interested in looking at is existing test failures on Mac? Last time I > looked (six months ago) there were quite a few :-( The same applies for windows. It is worst as there is almost no one (compared to unix-like systems) running tests on windows. Even if an extension has 80% coverage, it may be not tested at all on windows :) Cheers, -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org