At 7/21/2004 04:18 PM, you wrote:
Ugo,
tests help but don't really buy us anything: have a community that is strong and diverse enough to do the regression testing for us.
I couldn't disagree more. Unit/functional tests help tremendously in verifying that a new release is still compatible with the prior release - or at least identifies how it is not. Even more important, this can be known before the release is done instead of finding out from the user community after it goes out. Although there are a large number of folks who pull from CVS, I expect most download released versions under the expectation that they have undergone more rigorous testing.
Let's not mix concerns: cocoon has few tests, agreed, but this has nothing to do with the architecture.
It does in the sense that you can't prove that you haven't "broken" it.
-- Stefano.
