Paper for College - From Brazil

[Christian Stimming]

Hello Elisa and group,

unfortunately to my knowledge no documentation about gnucash's  
requirements exist, neither functional nor non-functional  
requirements. For the most part, any progress in this open source  
project has been done without any explicit formulation of  
requirements, but instead just with the ad-hoc requirements each  
involved developer had in mind. (The surprising part is how far the  
project got this way...)

There is one exception where functional requirements are listed  
explicitly, which is in the bugzilla bug reports. In the closed bugs  
and enhancement requests you will often find a very clear description  
of requests (=requirements) followed by some discussion of the  
implementation and finally the confirmation that the implementation  
fulfils the requirements. However, due to bugzilla's structure those  
bug items are usually very limited in scope.

For your Testing Project, I guess you will have to make up a  
specification of functional and non-functional requirements on your  
own. You can take inspiration from four places: 1. The bugzilla bugs  
as written above, see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla , 2. The  
developer documentation of the source code, partly explaining the  
source code structure http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/HEAD/ , 3. The use  
documentation intended to be read by each end-user  
http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/guide/ , 4. The wiki pages containing  
explanatinos for specific requests (maybe requirements?)  
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ and the rest of the wiki,

Also, the source code of gnucash contains a (relatively small) number  
of unittest programs which are run by the command "make check", but  
usually the actual requirements which are tested by those are not at  
all documented.

For your project, I can offer to be available for a telephone  
conference call with your group. Feel free to contact me off-list to  
discuss the details. I'm in European time (GMT+0100, Germany) and I  
can make cheap international phone calls myself. Maybe that would help  
you a bit.

Best Regards,

Christian


Zitat von Elisa Honda <elisa.mhonda at gmail.com>:
> My name is Elisa and I'm studying Software Engineering at FATEC College in
> Brazil.
> My class have a Software Testing Project to be developed to gain credits
> this semester and my Group and I chose GnuCash to test.
>
> I wish to know if you have some complete development documentation with
> Functional Requirements and Non-Functional Requirements to help us to create
> all Use Cases and Test Cases.
> Could you please help us?