I'll doctest polynomial_compiled this week, since it's 100% my fault.

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:41 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sage Developers,
> After deleting the server directory we need to add doctests to
> about588 more functions to get coverage to 90%, which is a major goal
> forsage-5.0, which we've been working on getting to for over a year
> now.I did an audit and came up with about 350 functions in 18 files
> forwhich adding coverage will not be too hard.  Some are
> disturbing,e.g., where a *huge* patch was *recently* added to Sage
> with over 100untested functions, due to sloppy refereeing and release
> management.
> Can you help me in getting these files tested?  I've posted a copy of
> thisat http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12024/.
> Just edit the ticket description and add your name after the * thatyou
> will get coverage to 100% on that file.  You an also create aticket
> with your tests (put #number) in.  Then it will be easy toreferee all
> these doctest patches.  Try to make different ticketsif/when you find
> bugs, and restrict your ticket to just doctests so itis easy to
> referee.    You can also add another file to the list.
> Once we get this done, another iteration should get us over 90%.
> I'lldo this by myself over the next decade if I have to, but I would
> muchprefer to get help.
> Probably Easy:
> * algebras/free_algebra_quotient_element.py: 0% (0 of 12)
> * databases/stein_watkins.py: 0% (0 of 15) -- easy, since there are
> tons of examples at the top already
> * gsl/interpolation.pyx: 0% (0 of 9) -- easy, examples at top and easy math
> * interfaces/psage.py: 0% (0 of 13) -- easy, since lots of examples at top
> * matrix/benchmark.py: 0% (0 of 29) -- easy; just run each function
> and paste into an EXAMPLES:: section.   This would also provide some
> useful additional testing.  Maybe use non-default arguments so not too
> slow.
> * misc/log.py: 0% (0 of 42) -- just make object and call methods; easy
> * monoids/monoid.py: 0% (0 of 3) -- easy
> * algebras/free_algebra_quotient.py: 6% (1 of 16) -- there is a big
> example in there -- just use it to construct similar examples
> everywhere else int he file.
>
> Probably Medium:
> * libs/mpmath/ext_main.pyx: 7% (8 of 111) -- How the *hell* did this
> get into Sage with a coverage score of 7%?!!??  This was added several
> years after we started a 100% doctest policy.  This appeared in
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8159 where the positive
> review is from Harald Schilly: "That was easy, all tests pass ...
> green light from me! I'm setting this to needs_review, and start with
> a positiv review from me."    Yes, it's easy for all tests to pass
> when there are only 7% tests.  Oops.   It will be a lot of work to
> properly doctest this file, but much of it is straightforward (e.g.,
> examples for the mpnumber) class.
> * rings/polynomial/polynomial_compiled.pyx: 0% (0 of 20) -- just a
> bunch of little classes for working with "optimized" polynomials,
> which is actually used somewhere, evidently.  Not a single example.
> Either doctest it completely, by following how it is used by
> polynomial_element.pyx, or delete it because maybe fast_callable is
> better?  But watch out for large degree, since fast_callable segfaults
> if the degree is large, so this polynomial_compiled.pyx might have
> some real value.
> * media/wav.py: 0% (0 of 25) -- mostly just a bunch of functions to
> get basic info about a wave file; what makes this harder is you have
> to get a .wav file and put it somewhere in Sage to be used for
> testing.  You can probably generate an empty wave file by using the
> kwds constructor of the class, save it to a temp file, and use it, but
> that is boring.
> * matrix/matrix_window.pyx: 0% (0 of 26) -- look at some code
> elsewhere that uses this, and just go through examples; probably not
> so hard* matrix/matrix_window_modn_dense.pyx: 0% (0 of 11)
>
> Probably Harder:
> * categories/action.pyx: 0% (0 of 31)
>
> Delete from SAGE?!:
> * databases/bz2Pickle.py  -- looks stupid and not used anywhere!
> * databases/db.py: 0% (0 of 21) -- also maybe not used anywhere; I
> think we shoudl remove ZODB anyways.
> * databases/gamma0wt2.py: 0% (0 of 7) -- delete
>
>
> --
> William Stein
> Professor of Mathematics
> University of Washington
> http://wstein.org
>
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