Open Source Blog

***As of 2018/03/25, this is a work in progress. This blog post is showing my progress made thus far, and will be updated once the final fix has been coded. As a follow-up to the first part of this post, this post will cover all the process I've gone through to solve this bug. I will also include useful links to the bug, resources, and my pull request as well. 1. What bug did I choose? After investigating the project and the kinds of issues that are filed on GitHub, I've chosen an issue that has to do with the Brave menu and submenu, more specifically with the History tab and some of its submenus that need to be disabled after certain conditions are met.  Here is the link to the GitHub issue; https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/2681 Here is the original comment about the bug, how to reproduce it, and the used specs; So essentially, the bug consists of disabling two submenu options below the History tab of the menubar, only when the browser history has ...

Our second Open Source project was to solve a "good-first-bug" in any project that suited our interests. Since I mostly prefer doing Java and/or C++ programming, I looked at many places for opportunities to solve bugs in those languages. Unfortunately, I couldn't find what I was looking for and I settled with solving a JavaScript bug in the Brave laptop-browser project on GitHub. Github Project Repository: https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop Brave Browser regular download: https://www.brave.com/ "Brave is open source, and built by a team of privacy focused, performance oriented pioneers of the web, founded by the inventor of Javascript and co-founder of Mozilla." This blog post will attempt to highlight all the major steps in the development of this project, including finding the bug, solving it, and contributing to the Brave community. To help visualize the timeline of this project, these following questions and answers will illustrate my progress bet...

In this lab, we looked into language standards, as well as testing test suites for the first time. Additionally, simple tests were contributed, with the possibility of posting as a contribution if need be. Here are some questions that cover the work that was done; 1-  When you run the tests, do all the tests pass or do any of them fail for you? After following the instructions and forking over the repo from https://github.com/bterlson/test262-harness#test262-harness, the "test262-harness test/**/*.js" command let me find out which tests would pass and fail. After a short compilation of the tests, I've found out that out of 205 tests, 199 passed and 6 failed. The failed tests concerned 'locale' related errors for the most part. 2- Examining existent test ' https://github.com/tc39/test262/blob/master/test/built-ins/String/prototype/toUpperCase/S15.5.4.18_A2_T1.js' and providing observations The sets of tests ran by this code include some defined conventi...

In this lab, we were tasked with finding a good beginner bug inside of VSCode to practice detecting bugs within a large framework that we're unfamiliar with. Here are the steps I followed, described in the form of these following questions; 1- Which bug(s) did you work on? I worked on the following issue; https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/43302 2- What was this bug about? How do you make it happen (steps to reproduce)? This bug involves Windows OS which allowed me to select it as the bug I would work on. It has to do with opening a batch file using the "Open with Code" option in a Windows explorer window. The steps to reproduce are as follows; - Right-click on a Windows bat file in the explorer (unpacked from downloaded zip file) - Select "Open with Code" (with the VSCode icon beside the text) - "Windows protected your PC" screen appears to "preventing unrecognized app from starting" First of all, I created a small bat ...