Hi; The C/C++ groups I worked in had all testers working in a scripting language. Those who had the skills and interest to write in C/C++ moved to product code. It was easy for developers to debug problems because the test application allowed you to configure which tests to run, the IDE was easy to use with single-step debugging, etc. You'd need two debuggers running, but it worked great and was little slower than working with C++ tests.
In the situation here, I agree that unit tests should be in C++, typically written by the developers when they write their code. However, there can still be room for further testing in Python. I've seen code that would call random APIs with random values and via genetic algorithms would come up with good ways to stress and crash the product. It would find plenty of bugs that no unit test ever could. The test harness was very good, it only reported problems that were reproducible, and the app would narrow it down to the shortest number of steps. So perhaps it is good to figure out whether something is a unit test, a UNO test, or some other fancier kind of testing. If a developer doesn't want to run Python, they can just look at the stack trace and try to figure it out on their own similar to what happens when bugs are reported today. Python just makes it more reproducible. It also seems that people who are interested in Python today could work on making it easier to contribute to LibreOffice in Python. There is a small community of Python hackers contributing to today, mostly it seems it is just Xisco Fauli. You don't need to re-write the whole app in Python to bring in new people, as there are already plenty of places to contribute, especially if you consider Base ;-) I find more and more programmers who don't have C++ experience, meanwhile Python is one of the fastest growing languages. Regards, -Keith -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Re-Testing-Working-on-PyUNO-tp4097868p4097981.html Sent from the Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
