> But let's not make Sage too much more bureaucratic. If anything, it's > already too bureaucratic. I personally can hardly stand to submit > anything to Sage anymore because of this.
:( > I do think it would be good to start using nosetest > (http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/0.11.2/) to > automatically run all functions that start with "test_" in all files, > in addition to doctests. This is how I've been testing the purple-sage > library (http://code.google.com/p/purplesage/), and for many cases it > does result in me writing much more comprehensive test suites. You mean http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9921? > > If you are going to give an example, how much longer does it take to > > check if they are consistent with Mathematica or similar software? Or > > chose an integral from a book? > > That does raise an issue: one problems is that most of Sage isn't > calculus. Most code I write these days isn't available in any other > software... > A lot of what Sage does is available only in Magma say, which many > people don't even have access to. And plots need to be tested 'by hand' by looking at them - which I do a lot of when reviewing those tickets. One interesting point coming out of this is that the onus is put on the author, not the reviewer, for testing. I assume that means "running doctests with ./sage -t or something", not "trying edge/ corner cases the author might not have thought of and making sure those work", which I think does properly belong with the reviewer. As I've said before, the framework R has for doing buildbotty stuff is what we should be striving for, though Sage is far more involved, I suppose, with all the subcomponents. Even having a buildbot for the release manager has really improved things already, I think! - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
