On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:37:00AM -0500, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 17:27 +0100, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:19:53AM -0500, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
> > > Yet, it's the core developers who will likely be called in to answer
> > > "hey my build failed with this python test, tell me what's wrong!!!"
> > 
> > In subsequentcheck? If that should indeed be the case even then, we can 
> > make a
> > separate "make pythoncheck" target.
> > 
> > > Now you are the one being academic here.  Stick to the topic please,
> > > which is whether or not Python tests should be used to test core
> > > functionality.  Nobody is talking about boost here.
> > 
> > I am talking about testing the _product_ here.
> 
> And I'm talking about what tools should be used to test what part of the
> product.  I think you are at one level above us.  No wonder we are
> talking past each other.

Yes, there is a difference between:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integration_testing
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_testing

and both have their use, but are very different beasts. I think, if we dont mix
them up, we can have both, handle them differently and all be happy.

Best,

Bjoern
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