Testing Guidelines for GRASS Ports and Drivers

Résumé du livre

The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) is a geographic information and image processing system originally designed to serve land managers and environment planners at Army installations. GRASS is public domain software distributed by several public and private organizations. The GRASS Inter-Agency Steering Committee represents the organizations that want to ensure that GRASS software remain reliable, consistent, and efficient, and that new versions of the code, new hardware platforms, and new digitizer, monitor, and printer drivers be consistently tested before distribution. This report provides guidance for testing new hardware platforms and drivers for GRASS. To be fully supported, hardware and software configurations must pass both alpha and beta testing. Some GRASS software distribution site must accept responsibility for support of new hardware configurations or drivers. Alpha testing is usually done internally, after an initial port of GRASS, by an organization that has created a new port or driver. During alpha testing, a serious effort is made to identify and correct problems resulting from new code by a coordinated effort between the programmers and testers. The test is initiated by the test coordinator, conducted by the beta test sites, and verified by the GRASS hardware coordinator. The end product is fully documented computer code. (kr).