[BioRuby] Developing a VISION

[George Githinji]

+1

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, February 25, 2012, Raoul Bonnal wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>>
>> On 25/02/12 09.42, "Pjotr Prins" <pjotr.public14 at thebird.nl <javascript:;>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > ## Vision statement: BioRuby is agile
>> >
>> > The Ruby community is always working on agile processes. BioRuby can
>> > benefit from behaviour driven development (BDD), specifications,
>> > doctests and integration and unit testing.
>> >
>> > Realisation:
>> >
>> > In addition to unit testing we should concentrate on introducing
>> > Rspec, Cucumber, rubydoctests across the board. Also we should use the
>> > continuous integration testing by services such as travis-ci (I have a
>> > writeup on the latter soon) and perhaps use the OBF test services for
>> > stable plugins.
>>
>
> Without an extensive testing process like this, I struggle to see
> how a dynamic range of plugins from different authors can keep
> interoperability - so this sounds good. As we've discussed, the
> buildbot system as we're using it on the OBF testing service is
> more suited to testing one code base under a single repository.
>
> So another +1 for looking at automated testing of all the biogem
> packages. It will be a lot of work though... But should pay off :)
>
> Peter
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