getting started with bug 45904

[Markus Mohrhard]

Hey,


>
> I am a 2012 cse graduate with an interest in c++ development. I was thinking
> about fixing the bug number as mentioned above. But i am new to bugzilla and
> each time i open a new bug, there ain;t any description of it only some
> comments by the users. What should i do to get started with the development.
> My c++ skills are of a recent grad.
>

Great that you have an interested in helping us. As mentor for this
easy hack I'm trying to outline what needs to be done for this easy
hack:

First of all you need a libreoffice build as explained at
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Native_Build . For this
task you benefit very much from a build with junit so that you can run
both the java based api tests and also the c++ based cppunit tests.

Then the second step is to pick one of the existent java based api
tests. Best you start with a simple one from sc (calc core) where I
can help you. Porting one of the tests normally consists of two steps:
First writing a test for the interface and secondly using these test
methods in an test that is written against a specific implementation
of the interface.

An easy example is XNamed ([1]) which is used for example in
ScNamedRangeObj  ([2] as part of the XNamedRange interface) and the
test code for the XNamed interface in test ([3],[4]) and then a test
against the implementation ([5]).

You should start with such an easy example and when you are
comfortable with writing such tests you can transform one of the
failing java based tests and debug the c++ based test to fix the
underlying problem.

You find the java based test code for both the interfaces and the
services in qaDevOOo/tests/

If you have more questions or need more help please write a mail or
ask on #libreoffice-dev.

Regards,
Markus

[1] http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/udkapi/com/sun/star/container/XNamed.idl
[2] http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sc/inc/nameuno.hxx#60
[3] http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/test/inc/test/container/xnamed.hxx
[4] http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/test/source/container/xnamed.cxx
[5] http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sc/qa/extras/scnamedrangeobj.cxx