Show HN: Codetract, software micro-contracting via unit testing

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by milohoffman • 13 years ago

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kwr• 13 years ago

I think I like this idea but I'm not sure if I can decompose my applications into small enough chunks. Maybe you could add mock services to call out to?

lifeisstillgood2• 13 years ago

This is a really good idea and something like this will be the 99designs of the coding world.

I am not entirely sure it will work, (the effort to write the unittests is high) and there is little understanding of the codebase it will enter and the code reuse issue is ...

Add to that integration and delivery and this unittest approach is a problem.

But change it to be "here is our code and CI on github", create a pull request that will change the flow of the credit card processing to use swipe and paypal as well as our tired old merchant bank.

People could bid for the project, and so forth.

tgflynn2• 13 years ago

If it takes as much effort to write the unit tests as it does to implement the solution then the problem was trivial to begin with, but that's probably true of 90% of all programming work.

It might be more useful for harder problems but there are already a number of sites addressing those : TopCoder, kaggle, Innocentive, etc.

milohoffman3• 13 years ago

One thing on my "to-do" list is adding a test suite builder, that allows you to specify inputs and outputs and then generates the test code for you. That would allow people who can't code or just aren't familiar with the syntax of a particular language/framework to still post contracts.

tgflynn2• 13 years ago

It will be a good idea when you can actually get paid for implementing contracts.

milohoffman3• 13 years ago

Thanks! Yes, paid contracts are coming soon :)

RossM• 13 years ago

It's fun, but I appear to have 135 points after completing about 35 points of contracts :)

milohoffman3• 13 years ago

Thanks for pointing this out! There was an issue with point total calculation that has been fixed, and all users' totals have been updated appropriately.

Show HN: Codetract, software micro-contracting via unit testing

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