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Because I need unit tests for the xml parsing code, I've decided to halt that until I get them set up.
The reason I post here if both because these forums are depressingly silent, but also because unit tests are essential for any program and fortunately easy to write. So all programmers who aren't up for the more advanced (for lack of a better word) stuff, should look into helping out with the unit tests.
What if a unit test? It's basically a program that is designed to only test one class or so.

I'll be using the Boost test framework, because Boost is pretty common among coders and is already in use with the project. Read more about it here http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/li ... index.html

Good to see some activity. I agree, Unit Tests used smartly are a great productivity tool.

Yeah, unit tests are a good idea.

Sorry if necroing this thread is bad.

Did any unit tests ever get made? I can't seem to find any in the code I have read. I would consider this a moderate, or possibly a high, priority task since it would facilitate better code and faster development time. Being new to c++ I'm not sure if I could put in place the initial unit test system, but I could create unit tests once I have a couple to use as a reference.

+1 for unit tests if they were ever looked at.

Is their a CI server or build server around somewhere which could do these daily tests? If so we could include it in the Makefile and get daily feedback on it.
I noticed svenskmand has a launchpad account with some builds on but I wasn't sure if these were automated, the latest build for ubuntu was weeks ago.

This never got off the ground as smilex disappeared. But unit tests are good, so please go ahead and use them.

I gess the first place to look for them would be in the xml branch where he said he was going to need them. I can try to implement unit tests but as I said before I'm not very confident in my ability to set them up from scratch.

Is there still genuine interest in creating unit tests? I would be happy to assist the interested parties in building up a framework in opendungeons for this purpose.

Are people still supportive of adding unit tests? I was thinking of trying to do it, we are already using boost, so that's probably the easiest framework to use.

IMHO, that's where console point is : to allow some kind of unit test.
But if you want to go for some real unit test, please go ahead, it's always good to have them especially to test non-regressions.

Sure, this can't hurt.