Re: Interested In Volunteering For Testing

[John Darrington]

[CCing pspp-dev]

Hi Selma,

For general guidelines you should read the GNU Coding Standards which can be 
found
at http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html  Also the GNU Maintainers 
Doc
at http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html contains pertinent 
information.

Note in particular section 6 which talks about paperwork.  You  will need to 
talk
to Ben about that before we can include your contributions, but you can start 
working
on the task immediately.

For all the existing tests, we use Autotest.  Unless there is a compelling 
reason to the
contrary, I think your tests should also use Autotest.  The manual can be found 
at 
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Using-Autotest.html#Using-Autotest
In the source code, there is a directory called "tests" which contain the 
existing
test suite.  I suggest you look through some of the existing *.at files to get 
an idea
of how it works.

Also, please remember to post to pspp-dev rather than any individual developer 
when 
talking about the work.  That way everyone knows what's going on, and you get a 
better chance of an informative reply.

Good luck,

John

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 08:04:47PM -0700, Selma Leathem wrote:
     Hello John,
     ?
     Some of this seems similar to a task I did long ago in python, where I 
parsed tables from files and worked with the data, only now?the data resides on 
the internet, which at first glance appears to be easily handled with such 
library resources as netdb.h ect... I'm just checking that you don't have any 
preset guidelines, ideas, ect.. that I should follow.
     ?
     Thank you,
     ?
     Selma
     
     
     ________________________________
     From: John Darrington <address@hidden>
     To: Selma Leathem <address@hidden>
     Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 12:58 PM
     Subject: Re: Interesting In Volunteering For Testing
     
     One thing that we need is some auto tests against the US statistical 
reference 
     sets which are available at http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/strd/
     
     Perhaps you'd like to to that?
     
     
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