Friday 2 May 2008

Happiness is tests passing


I've just (re-)attained the happy state of the unit tests passing in the key package of jgogears. I've invested a surprising amount of time and energy in the unit tests, mainly as a form of requirements analysis, and I'm really pleased with the result.


Sadly, the core package that contains much of the code has some outstanding, longstanding failures which are going to be challenging to fix. They are represent failures in jgogears' ability to round-trip board states between GNU-Go ASCII and SGF files and will require a bug-for-bug reimplementation of the GNU-Go ASCII board printer.


jgogears has reached the stage where it now plays games that are obviously meant to be go, but is not yet a serious contender.

1 comment:

stephen said...

This is why I refer to "the Green Bar of Happiness."