One of those days…

Frank Tobia, June 23rd, 2008

I wake up in the morning to find that eternal funny man George Carlin has died. Add to that the fact that one of my recently-ported api tests has failed, and you just know it’s going to be one of those days.

Work on porting the test suite was slow at first. I had thought it would be easy enough just to jump in and start coding. Later this pipe dream evaporated and I forced myself to learn CherryPy, Python Paste, and a bit of WSGI.  Then Asheesh and Nathan filled me in on the intricacies of the “buildout” build system (which is really quite nice when you get to know it), and I was ready to go.

So the porting has begun. Check out the branch where all the fun is happening, if you happen to be so inclined. And as the fates would have it, the lucky number seventh test I ported just so happens to fail. This leads to the real challenge every software tester must eventually face: fixing a broken test. Getting to the bottom of this means a fun-filled day ahead.