Re: [Vala] Unit Testing in Vala

[Steven Oliver <oliver steven gmail com>]

I am sorry if I made it sound like you guys had done something wrong. That
was not my intention!

Is there a reason you're not currently using it, even if you aren't further
developing it?

Steven N. Oliver

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Jim Nelson <jim yorba org> wrote:

> For the record, Yorba attempted to contact the original developer of
> Valadate and received no response.  We had some testing needs awhile back,
> and so we forked.  The work we did was not to add features, but merely to
> rip things out to get it to compile with the then-current version of Vala.
>
> You are correct, we're not currently using or developing Valadate.  We
> would like it if someone stepped up to take over the project.  The code is
> most likely suffering from bit rot and could use some attention.
>  Unfortunately, we have our hands full with other projects and can't spend
> the time it would take.
>
> -- Jim
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Steven Oliver <oliver steven gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> There are a couple of unit testing frameworks out there for Vala. I know
> there a multitude of frameworks people have written themselves for
> themselves that aren't really published as stand alone projects. Given
> that
> I'd like to start putting some testing in a project I'm working on and I
> had a few questions for the audience.
>
> It appears to me that Valadate is the most "mature" testing platform out
> there. I've noticed it's "hosted" on Gitorious but it appears that Yorba
> has cloned it on their server and have made updates to it that never made
> it back to Gitorious. It also appears that despite hosting Valadate Yorba
> doesn't actually use it. * puzzled *
>
> Is there anything else out there worth looking at? Or at lest ones that
> have seen updates in the past 2 years? And finally, what is everyone doing
> for unit testing? It appears to be something a lot of projects don't
> really
> do anymore.
>
> Steven N. Oliver