Looking to help

[KeekeeSakura]

Hi, I am new to this community. While playing on Horizon for the last 8 months, I peeked a few times at the server code and now I am interested to offer some help.
I have 20+ years of dev experience (mainly in c#) where the last 8 I occupied Tech Lead position for tools at a AAA game dev company.
Enough with the introduction and now onto my questions:

-I was wondering if there was any previous effort to add some unit and automated tests into LSB ?
-Does the solution have any kind of architecture like the layered architecture?
-What kind of IDE are you using? I'm used to Visual Studio but not with CMake.

Thanks.

Keekee

[zach2good]

Hi there,

Does the solution have any kind of architecture like the layered architecture?

There is a somewhat outdated entry-point guide here: https://github.com/LandSandBoat/server/wiki/Development-Server-Startup-Tutorial

But at this point, you can open up the main.cpp of any of the server executables and clearly follow how they start up, what happens, etc.

What kind of IDE are you using? I'm used to Visual Studio but not with CMake

VSCode is a good first bet once you're set up, since we have all of the configuration and addons for it as part of the repo, so it should "just work" or prompt you to add the things you might be missing. CMake is a build configuration tool.

C#

This is a C++-heavy project, so your experience with C# will be of very limited use in the core, but will probably help you with the scripting.

was wondering if there was any previous effort to add some unit and automated tests into LSB ?

We have some very basic smoke testing in our CI scripts which could do with cleaning up and moving into Python, if you were interested in that sort of thing.

We have designs for how we want our unit testing to look, but that's a job not suitable for newcomers, since it will involve making a lot of deep changes to the engine.

[zach2good]

You can also look for easy piece of work here: good first issue Good for newcomers