The lack of integrated unit tests in OC hurts the quality image and is a common requirement these days especially when e-commerce software is mission-critical most of the times.
The OC head dev closed my ticket on that matter on GitHub (how uncommon...
) with the excuse that a test suite should not be part of the core. As much as I disagree with this decision I have to respect it, so I decided to team up with some of you OC gurus and get working on it as a separate project.I'm not familiar with php testing frameworks (yet) but I can contribute to and audit the process of writing unit tests, examining code coverage etc.
The project will be open source (probably under MIT osl) and hosted on github and/or code.google, or whatever we decide upon. The suit should cover at least the core components and functions and the most common payment gateways. When the project matures there should be an interface to augment tests, that mods and plugins will use to provide the correct behavior of their changes.
Any suggestions, comments, criticism?
Who's in?
With regards,
Alex "Chorvus" Tzo
