Testing in Open Source Software OSS Projects

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Testing in Open Source Software (OSS) Projects
Department of Informatics at Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki Course Introduction to Software
Engineering Semester 5

• Name Stelios Petrakis
• Contact stpetrak_at_ccf.auth.gr
• Student ID (AEM)946

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Project Name Mednafen
Project login ID spetrakis

• Hosted Mednafen project is hosted both at
  Freshmeat and Sourceforge. It also has a
  homepage at http//www.mednafen.com.
• Number of developers 1 but with a really live
  forum counting 41 registered users.
• Development Status Both at Beta and Stable
  according to Sourceforge.
• Introduction Mednafen is a portable, utilizing
  OpenGL and SDL, argument(command-line)-driven
  multi-system console emulator with many advanced
  features.
• The Atari Lynx, GameBoy, GameBoy Color, GameBoy
  Advance, NES, PC Engine(TurboGrafx 16), and
  SuperGrafx are the consoles that are being
  emulated.

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Screenshots and Duration
More screenshots here

• The overall duration of the project
• First time downloaded and tested at November 30th
  2005.
• Both Windows and Linux (Debian) versions tested.

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Activity

• Why this project was interesting
• Easy to use, test and install especially in
  Windows platform where no installation was really
  needed .
• DragnDrop load of the emulated games, really
  simple and efficient interface.
• The forum community was really helpful as the bug
  reports were answered rather fast!
• Hey, it is a console emulator! It was fun after
  all! ?

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Problems Encountered

• The first problem encountered was the difficulty
  in finding a really interesting and live
  project at the same time with the requirements
  given by the professor concerning the status,
  the community, number of developers etc .
• The second difficulty was the availability of
  emulated games for the platforms that Mednafen
  can use game boy, game boy advance etc
  Luckily I had recently downloaded a DVD full of
  those so I had the resources for testing!
• Finally, the lack of Graphical User Interface in
  the interface of Mednafen emulator was rather
  annoying some time, as all of its options had to
  be enabled through console commands and not
  through buttons of the GUI.

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Thanks for your time
End of Presentation

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