[Scilab-Dev] Re: and idea for the development of Scipad

[François Vogel]

Torbjørn Pettersen said on 18/10/2008 11:04:
> With "both points" you mean unitary tests and a new helpfile, right?

Yes.

> An updated helpfile is enclosed. Writing documentation seems to kill my 
> writing skills, so if I've missed or miss explained something just let 
> me know.

I'll have a look, thanks.

> But what is meant with unitary tests? A set of test cases to check the 
> validity of the code? Are there any guidelines for writing such tests?

I couldn't find guidelines for unitary tests on the wiki.

I could only for non regression tests here:
http://wiki.scilab.org/nonRegressionTests

This page is however pretty outdated because the tests are now located 
in each module and no longer in a specific directory containing all tests.

You can have a look in a random SCI/modules/<module>/tests/unit_tests 
of the Scilab source tree and reverse engineer how this is done. I 
have nothing better to propose...

> By the way - what is SEP an acronym for? I'm usually good at deciphering 
> three-letter-abbreviations, but not this one.

Pick your choice:
	Scilab ?Enhancement Proposal
	Someone Else's Problem
	<your own proposal>

See the related discussion in this message and the following ones:
http://lists.scilab.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-browse?list=dev&cmd=showmsg&msgnum=473


> You may want to check that the links in the help_from_sci help file 
> works when including it into scilab.

Well, if you checked it I'm fine enough. A bit lazy and discouraged 
today...


> I suspect it might be a Scilab bug related to 
> builder_help.sce (from SCI\contrib\toolbox_skeleton), but I haven't had 
> the time to check it thoroughly.

Did you find any way of adding a single help page into the java browser?

This has been driven me crazy some time ago:
http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3015

Francois