Dear Ashwin, On 03/09/2016 01:15 PM, Ashwin Trikuta Srinath wrote:
Hi Peter - great post(s)! In case you haven't seen them already, lot of great arguments have been made here [1] about why teaching testing may/may not be a good idea in our workshops.
Yes, I read this post a long time ago. And I know that Greg initiated a project on testing but that didn't receive too much attention. Correct me if I am wrong.
I'm in favour of teaching testing - even if it is in the style of the regression tests you mentioned. But I'm not so sure about unit tests, or even if application code built on libraries can/should be "unit" tested.
Well, I would very emotionally start arguing against this. As unit tests are my day-to-day tool that I use for application and for library code and they have rescued my !*&^% multiple times. As most of my tasks involve accelerating applications, I always say no speed-up is of use if the results are wrong.
But maybe I don't see your point, can you please elaborate!
Can you give us some examples of the type of unit tests that you found? Did you see a "theme" in the unit tests presented by both groups? [1]
Not really, I know that the planet hunters basically had a pipeline to go through for each image (or data set) they wanted to process. I think they wrote unit tests for each step. For the others, I cannot say. I am currently waiting for more material from the hackathon to come online. If you want, I can provide a follow up as I am intrigued by this question as well.
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