"Eric Brunson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Alan Gauld wrote:
> Which actually makes it a very good test since thats > exactly the kind of thing you should be testing for :-) Note the smiley... > A test suite that only checks valid data is a bad test. > > Testing for valid input seems to be outside the scope of the problem > definition. :-) As I note yours... However, there is a bit of a serious point here too in that users never ask for data validation (at least mine never do!) they just expect it. So I still maintain that any test suite no matter how basic should always cover some tests for invalid input data. Even well intentioned users will make mistakes and a program that crashes on invalid input is not user friendly - even if the only user is the author! Alan G _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
