[asterisk-dev] About asterisk development plans

[Olle E. Johansson]

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>
> Wouldn't step one be picking what to test? Do you think the features
> page I listed is a good starting point, i.e. everything in
> asterisk-xxxx.tar.gz, not
> addons or libs. But I could see tests for dahdi and libpri etc. later.

To show the complexity of what we're discussing:

Let's take blind transfer.

It can be done

- in the pbx core
- in the SIP channel
- in the ZAP/dahdi channel
- from manager

And propably a few other ways that I don't know or forgot about.

Now take all the channel drivers we have and let's make sure that  
blind transfer works from every channel to the same channel and to  
every other channel. For SIP and ZAP/DAHDI you need to run twice.

And then we have to check logs and CDRs for this.

On top of this, transfers *should* go through the dialplan and there  
are many, many ways they can be handled in there. And there are  
settings in the dialplan and in features.conf that control behaviour  
of transfers.

Now we're up to a massive amount of tests.

Then add various phone vendor's implementations.

One bullet point, many, many hours of work. A lot of possibility to  
cause a bug when you fix something else.

Guessing, a lot of these but not all can be handled automatically. And  
that would be a great help.
It's not an easy task though.

/O