On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Damien Cassou <damien.cas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Camillo Bruni <camillobr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> testGeneralInquiries
>>> | now d t dt |
>>>
>>> now := self timeClass dateAndTimeNow.
>>> self
>>> assert: now size = 2;
>>> assert: now last <= self timeClass now.
>>>
>>> self should: [ self timeClass timeWords ] raise: MessageNotUnderstood.
>>>
>>> d := '2 June 1973' asDate.
>>> t := '4:02:47 am' asTime.
>>> dt := self timeClass dateAndTimeFromSeconds: (2285280000 + 14567).
>>> self
>>> assert: dt = {d. t.}.
>>>
>>>
>>> The middle part is a GREAT example of a useful unit test…
>>
>> that's called a negative test :D, assume what possible could fail in the
>> universe and test for it :D
>
> I will write a paper on automatic negative test generation. Who wants
> to join? :-)
You can even write a program that write a paper about negative tests
generation ;-)
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Serge Stinckwich
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