Paul Rubin wrote: > E.g. your program might pass its test and run properly for years > before some weird piece of input data causes some regexp to not quite > work.
Then you get a bug report, you fix it, and you add a test for it so that particular bug can't happen again. > Once I got the > function to work, I deployed it without writing permanent tests for > it. That suggests you had a temporary test at some point. So, keep it and make it a permanent test. Even if it's just a small manually-created directory, it's still better than nothing, and you can add to it over time to cover any bugs that turn up. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
