GSoC 2010 Melange Testing Project: Week 7 of the Coding Period

Last week, I found that Python coverage does not track the properties definition of Melange models which makes the coverage of models still quite low. So, I first tried to exclude models from coverage report. This is done by stubbing out nose.plugins.cover.Coverage.wantModuleCoverage with a method which offers the option to skip packages for testing coverage report through pymox stubout. Later, however, I remembered that coverage should be able to track class variables and module variables. I reckoned that the problem may be that these Melange models have been loaded before the coverage starts tracking. So, I further used pymox stubout to stub out nose.plugins.cover.Coverage.begin so that it loads Melange after the testing coverage starts. It works! All the class variables and module variables of Melange models, logic and views can be tracked by coverage and the code coverage now is over 50%.

Then I further worked on various views, e.g. sponsor, program, student, organization, etc and aim to increase the overall code coverage to over 60% next week.

GSoC 2010 Melange Testing Project: Week 6 of the Coding Period

In this week, I first tried to add test coverage to Melange models, i.e. did model tests. However, I found that Python coverage does not track the properties definition of models which makes the coverage of models still quite low. When I discussed with Sverre, he suggested me to exclude models in the coverage report and start to test other modules with lowest coverage. After rechecking the coverage report, I decided to do view tests for sponsor, org, org_admin, mentors, student and so on.

Then my hard drive was corrupt:(. Fortunately, I have the online clone on Google servers, so I have not lost much work. It just took me some time to reinstall the operating system and resetup the environments. Due to the problem, I have only finished most parts of the sponsor view tests and some parts of org and student tests. Next week, I will definitely work harder to catch up.