[Sugar-devel] Unit testing an activity

[Samuel Greenfeld]

Logging isn't quite the question being asked.  This was discussed on IRC a
bit.

Taylor is potentially getting school credit for working on the video chat
activity this semester.  Part of Taylor's independent study agreement
requires him/her to write unit tests to verify the proper operation of the
code written.

There is no guarantee Taylor will be working on this project next semester;
someone else may be asked to take over.  And the idea is that the next
maintainer will be able to use the unit tests to-be-created to verify that
they did not break anything with an update.

While I know Sascha is working on some unit tests for the core Sugar
libraries, there is no unit test approach I know of that has been taken to
systematically verify activities.  So I asked Taylor to ask on this email
list in case someone has an idea how to do this, or knows of an activity
which already has unit tests.

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SJG


On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Rafael Ortiz <rafael at activitycentral.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Taylor Rose (RIT Student) <tjr1351 at rit.edu
> > wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have advice about how to run unit tests for an activity? I am
>> working on a video conferencing activity called Open Video Chat<https://github.com/FOSSRIT/Open-Video-chat>.
>> I'd like to be able to run some basic unit tests on the activity but I'm
>> not sure how to instantiate an activity in a testing environment or if it's
>> even possible. Can anyone offer advice or point me to an example? I'd like
>> to be able to mock a connection and make sure the activity reacts properly,
>> starting up gstreamer and such.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Taylor
>>
>>
> Hi Taylor
>
> Thanks for working on Open video chat,
> to debug your application you can use Python logging:
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Python_Standard_Logging_in_Sugar
>
>
> Your logs are going to be saved on .sugar/default/logs
>
>
> For examples on how to use it, you can look at other activities on
> http://git.sugarlabs.org
>
> hth.
>
> Thanks.
>
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