Re: Octave code sprint this Saturday!

[Daryl Lee]

On 8/30/2011 7:57 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 29 August 2011 17:54, Daryl Lee<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > On 8/29/2011 10:18 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> > > Reminder! We're having our second code sprint this Saturday:
> > >
> > >       http://octave.org/sprint.html
> > >
> > > It should be fun, come and mingle while we write tests for Octave.
> > > All you need is a working Octave installation and working knowledge
> > > of the Octave language. No other experience necessary.
> > > ...
> >
> > In order to know whether I could make a useful contribution, is
> > there a place where I could see samples of test code?  Or would it
> > be better to just lurk on irc for a while?
>
> Well, have a look at the sorts of commits that we made for the last
> codesprint:
>
>      http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/log?rev=codesprint%3A
>
> Basically, you just have to understand the expected inputs and outputs
> of how whatever Octave function you're writing a test for. Then it's
> just a matter of wrapping the test with an "assert" or "test"
> instruction.
>
> You're welcome in IRC, of course, although nowadays we usually chat
> about other things than the code sprint.

Thanks, I'll have a look.  My reference lurking was meant to be on the day 
of the sprint.  The idea to kind of just watch for a while then jump in if 
it didn't look too scary.


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