Re: [Qucs-devel] 4 students to improve qucs core

[Guilherme B. T. <gui...@gm...>]

Thank you for resending. I meant to reply all, not only to you.

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Christian Gagneraud <ch...@gn...> wrote:

> Resending to the mailing list as this might be of interest to other people.
>
> On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:18:02 you wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Christian Gagneraud <ch...@gn...>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > On 22/09/15 20:23, Guilherme Brondani Torri wrote:
> > > > Hi Bastien,
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES <
> > > >
> > > > rou...@gm...> wrote:
> > > >> I have assigned 4 students to improve qucs-core testsuite.
> > > >>
> > > >> They will work during about 7months on qucs.
> > > >
> > > > Interesting. Can you elaborate a bit further on your plans?
> > >
> > > 4 students for 7 months! That sounds really great!
> > > It would be nice to add code coverage [1][2] if you're planning to
> > > improve the testsuite.
> > >
> > > [1]
> > >
> > >
> https://qiaomuf.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/use-gcov-and-lcov-to-know-your-te
> > > st-coverage/ [2] http://llvm.org/docs/CoverageMappingFormat.html
> >
> > Code coverage (gcov) for qucs-core is already functional. This work was
> > started by Bastien.
> > Data is collected with a set of test projects/examples plus a test
> > generator for the equation system used for pre/post processing. The test
> > projects are hosted here [1].
> > There are also a few unit tests with GoogleTest and some other custom
> > assertion mechanism implemented by Bastien.
> >
> > You can use lcov locally, but we also browse the coverage status online.
> > The Travis CI is regularly sending data to Coveralls [2].
> >
> > Some time ago I gave it a try with the Coverity scan static analyzer [3].
> > It detected some 200 defects across qucs and qucs-core... some are false
> > positives, some are bugs.
> > Is anyone willing to work on it? Just ask for access. The service is not
> > public by default. We can change that and we can also enable Travis CI
> > regularly run/update Coverity...
> >
> > It would be very nice indeed to have people working on the test, coverage
> > and static bug fixing.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Guilherme
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/Qucs/qucs-test
> > [2] https://coveralls.io/github/Qucs/qucs
> > [3] https://scan.coverity.com/projects/2528
>
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