SpikeSource is currently sponsoring an Open Testing Contest. The contest aims to promote the concept of participatory testing while at the same time help projects improve their testing process. They are even offering prizes to the projects that improve their testing the most. First, if you haven’t nominated your project, you better do it fast. The deadline is August 31st.
Code coverage is measured by three tools for C/C++ (Bullseye), php (phpcodecoverage), and Java (clover) applications. SpikeSource will provide daily results for the aggregated code coverage across each project based on the results provided by these tools. The winning project will be the one that increases relative code coverage the most from September 15 - December 31, 2005.
So first your project should be written in C/C++, Java or PHP. Second, your project must have at least 20,000 lines of code. I know what your thinking….No! You may not use that trick we all did in college. 18,000 lines of comments will not get you qualified for the competition. There are some minor details, like you should actually be a contributor to the project, and it can not be commercially backed, but the other important requirement is that your project should have less than 75% initial code coverage.
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