student workflow

• This repo provides a framework for the student workflow of the bootcamp. Students are expected to:

  • fork the repo on github.
  • clone the fork on their local machine.
  • optional: add the bin/ directory to their PATH.
  • create a new subdir under acts/ for each activity.
  • create tests for each script.
  • add the subdir, commit, and push it to github.
  • set up their jenkins instance to run tests on checkin.

• Shell script tests are to be done with shunit2 (gen_test_results.sh) http://code.google.com/p/shunit2/ , and/or shiot (shiot-xunit). For your convenience, shunit2 and shiot are included in this repo's bin directory. shunit2 is free software from google covered by the GNU Lesser GPL. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html

• python tests are to be created using the unittest module, and run with nose (nosetests). http://pythontesting.net/framework/nose/nose-introduction/ You may need to install nosetests with sudo easy_install nose.

• ruby tests are to be created using rspec. http://betterspecs.org/ You may need to install rspec with sudo gem install rspec.