Tracking App Development issues

[James Westby]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:01:51 +0100, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad at gmail.com> wrote:
> App development on Ubuntu, for anything other than hobby or highly 
> professional developers with plenty of time,  is currently a gamble. 
> That is unacceptable. So what do we do about it?

Hi,

I think that the ideal way to deal with this would be to have an
automated test suite for application development use cases. This would
test the APIs that are part of a core supported set and check the use
cases that we want to support.

This would catch regressions in new versions, and provide a way for bug
fixes to be tested.

There would be some work in setting up a testing environment to run the
tests frequently and report the result, but hopefully this could be pick
up a lot from the work done on other distribution tests over the last
couple of cycles.

That work would be small compared to the effort required to write all of
the tests though, especially because we would be starting from zero.

Would it be possible to reduce thae effort required for that, or at
least break it up so that we could get a significant chunk of the value
for much less initial effort?

I'm hoping there's another solution that doesn't have these problems.

Thanks,

James