On the low adoption of automated testing in FOSS | Linux Today

On the low adoption of automated testing in FOSS

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Alexandros Frantzis
Oct 19, 2018

For projects of any value and significance, having a comprehensive automated test suite is nowadays considered a standard software engineering practice. Why, then, don’t we see more prominent FOSS projects employing this practice?

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Alexandros Frantzis

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