[Bioperl-l] need info

[Heikki Lehvaslaiho]

Kumailj,

Like Barry said, familiarizing yourself with bioperl is the first thing to do.
Most of people have per project s that they pursue. I am sure you will come up 
with one in due time.



Here is one area that needs a lot of help. Although, we have a huge collection 
of tests, there are still modules with no tests at all. We'd like to test at 
least all public methods. Look for examples in the t directory of bioperl.

A more computer science related problem is to identify classes that do not 
have tests. There are quite a few tightly linked clusters of classes that 
that do not make sense to tests individually, like SearchIO modules related 
to BLAST/FASTA parsing. The problem is to identify those modules. At some 
point I tried to scan through all test files and compare that to the list of 
classes produced by the maintenance/modules.pl script to identify the ones in 
need of testing but got so many false positives, that I moved on to other 
things. 

If you, or anyone, could create a script, e.g. maintenance/needtesting.pl, 
that would do that task, it would be a big step ahead.

A way to do it would be take the code in maintenance/modules.pl that creates a 
hash of modules and their immediate parents, scan the t/*.t files to see 
which modules are being tested, follow the inheritance of path of every 
module and check which modules within Bio namespace they 'use', and mark all 
those a tested, and finally print out a list of untested modules.

Yous,
	-Heikki

 



On Thursday 17 November 2005 21:04, kumail wrote:
> dear sir
> i am niraj shrestha from Nepal. currently i am teaching at Kathmandu
> University. i am graduated from the university in 2001 in computer science
> & engineering. my research interest is in bioinformatics, parallel and
> distributed network, semantic web. so if i can help or can do some work for
> bio-pearl then i am ready for that. looking forward to your kind
> suggestions.
>
> with regards,
> _____________________________________
>
> Niraj Shrestha
> Department of Computer Science & Engineering
> Kathmandu University,
> Dhulikhel, Nepal
> P.O.Box: 6250, Kathmandu, Nepal
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