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

[Torbjørn Pettersen]

François Vogel skrev:
> Torbjørn Pettersen said on 18/10/2008 11:04:
>
>> 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 This page is however pretty outdated because the tests are now located 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...
Thanks I'll take a look, but it might take some weeks before I have time 
for this.
I'll probably need to ask more questions here later regarding how the 
help system works.

>
>> 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>
>
Ok, I'll wait for some months and see what happens with help_from_sci 
and then I'll decide which choice is suitable :-)

> 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?
No, not after Scilab 5.

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