[mary-dev] Error Handling in MARY TTS: Start of new guidelines for writing code in MARY TTS

[Marc Schroeder]

Hi Nickolay,

thanks for the feedback and for these pointers. I will certainly look 
them up and try them out.

I fully agree that tools and processes are needed to help verify that 
the good intentions are maintained throughout ;-) Much to do there, we 
are only getting started, in a way.

More pointers certainly welcome. For CI, I was thinking to use cruise 
control, but will have a look at Hudson since you recommend it.

Never heard of Eclemma before, will have a look.

Thanks and best,
Marc

On 12.11.10 13:23, Nickolay V. Shmyrev wrote:
> Hello Marc
>
> While everything you presented is very reasonable and very much needed
> I wonder if you thought about extending the development tool set to
> ensure software quality. In QA not only styles and guidelines are
> important, quite signficant parts of QA are processes and tools.
> Process make sure the guarantees you want to provide are indeed
> provided as for tools they help you in this task. To list a few of
> them
>
> 1) FindBugs (http://findbugs.sourceforge.net) will help you to ensure
> code style, function contracts, etc
> 2) Hudson (http://hudson-ci.org) continuous integration ensures all
> your builds are in shape
> 3) Eclemma (www.eclemma.org/) helps to improve test coverage and find
> rare paths in application.
>
>
> 2010/11/12, Marc Schroeder<marc.schroeder at dfki.de>:
>> Code quality is an important goal, and MARY TTS sometimes falls short of
>> it. The MARY TTS core team is now (ten years late, I know...) defining
>> guidelines for how to write code in MARY TTS.
>>
>> Introducing these new principles is a process; we start with a central
>> issue, Error Handling. Please have a look at the following set of slides:
>>
>> http://mary.opendfki.de/repos/trunk/doc/ErrorHandling.pdf
>>
>> I am sure the ideas in these slides are not the perfect "right thing" to
>> do; but they seem like a good step in the right direction.
>>
>> All *new code* submitted to the MARY TTS repository, in the trunk and in
>> all branches, should please observe the new guidelines. Old code will be
>> updated as time permits.
>>
>>
>> If there are concerns, comments or questions about these guidelines,
>> feel free to discuss on this list.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Marc
>>
>>
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-- 
Dr. Marc Schröder, Senior Researcher at DFKI GmbH
Coordinator EU FP7 Project SEMAINE http://www.semaine-project.eu
Project leader for DFKI in SSPNet http://sspnet.eu
Project leader PAVOQUE http://mary.dfki.de/pavoque
Associate Editor IEEE Trans. Affective Computing http://computer.org/tac
Editor W3C EmotionML Working Draft http://www.w3.org/TR/emotionml/
Portal Editor http://emotion-research.net
Team Leader DFKI TTS Group http://mary.dfki.de

Homepage: http://www.dfki.de/~schroed
Email: marc.schroeder at dfki.de
Phone: +49-681-85775-5303
Postal address: DFKI GmbH, Campus D3_2, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 
Saarbrücken, Germany
--
Official DFKI coordinates:
Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH
Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Geschaeftsfuehrung:
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender)
Dr. Walter Olthoff
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes
Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313