On 4/19/11, Arthur Barstow <art.bars...@nokia.com> wrote: > On Apr/18/2011 12:29 PM, ext Aryeh Gregor wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Garrett Smith<dhtmlkitc...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> The superfluous, badly worded maladvice remains: "Within each test one >>> may have a number of asserts." >>> >>> Awkward wording to explicitly mention that such bad practice is allowed. >> I'll reiterate that I think multiple asserts per test are useful, and >> have seen no substantive arguments to the contrary. It's true that >> the sentence would be better worded as "Each test can have a number of >> asserts." > > Again, I don't think we should be overly constraining here. I changed > that bullet to: > > [[ > * Each test can have one or more asserts. Note: some prefer a test is > limited to a single assertion but that is not mandatory. > ]] Superfluous. And by that I mean unnecessary/needless. Why? Because if the author doesn't seeing the harm in multiple assertions, he['ll add them; he will do that anyway.
Eschew surplusage. -- Garrett
