Junit testing, was: Re: [jira] Updated: (NUTCH-357) crawling simulation

[Sami Siren <ss...@gmail.com>]

Stefan Groschupf (JIRA) wrote:
> 
> A very first preview of a plugin that helps to simulate crawls. This
> protocol plugin can be used to replace the http protocol plugin and
> return defined content during a fetch. To simulate custom scenarios a
> interface names Simulator can be implemented with just one method. 
> The plugin comes with a very simple basic Simulator implementation,
> however this already allows to simulate the by today known nutch
> scoring problems, like pages pointing to itself or link chains. For
> more details see the java doc, however I plan to improve the java doc
> with a native speaker.
> 
> Feedback is welcome.

One must also remember that proper junit testing can be used to verify 
functionality.

There's lot of code currently that is not guarded by unit tests and I 
hereby invite everybody to participate in this endless effort and make 
Nutch unit tests better ;)

--
  Sami Siren

Re: Junit testing, was: Re: [jira] Updated: (NUTCH-357) crawling simulation

[Stefan Groschupf <sg...@101tec.com>]

> One must also remember that proper junit testing can be used to  
> verify functionality.
> There's lot of code currently that is not guarded by unit tests and  
> I hereby invite everybody to participate in this endless effort and  
> make Nutch unit tests better ;)
I completely agree!!!
Nutch has more bugs than ever before since most of the .8 code was  
developed without tests.

Stefan