Best Practices for Testing *Open Source Projects

Best Practices for Testing Closed Source Projects

• Objectively Understand the Quality

• Stakeholders Understand the Risks

• Find Bugs / Test for Regressions

is most visible to humans

is “irritating”

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1. Some Evolutionary Psychology Thing

2. Coincidence

Running tests in the cloud when code submitted to source control.

1. Helps find errors on another computer1. No more “It works on my machine”

2. Tests pull requests from other developers

3. Notifies you of issues after merging / tagging

4. Gives you a badge

1. The process to measure your code is covered

guarantee the quality of the code

3. Gives you a badge

Codecov Coveralls

Snyk

1. Add A Contributors File1. Teach how to contribute

2. Delegate1. Give people projects and get them to test too

2. Even if you want to learn the thing

3. Coach / Be Nice

4. Celebrate Newcomers

• Test your docs

• Adds value to docs

• Easy first contributions

Questions?