* Wichert Akkerman <wich...@wiggy.net> [2010-07-20 19:28]: > On 2010-7-20 18:15, Christian Theune wrote: >> At least, WRT this bug, I don't think it's a good idea to ask explicitly >> for bad requests to go to the application as the test layer should model >> real server behaviour as closely as possible. And again it wouldn't make >> sense anyway as you can't pass an unparsable request to the application. > > I'm not sure I agree. Like everything else servers have bugs, so it > can't hurt to test how your application would behave given certain > server bugs.
I don't think it is usually a productive assumption that lower layers fail to uphold their end of the contract. Maybe an extrapolation/hyperbole illustrates my opinion: Cosmic rays might also flip bits in your computer's RAM or disk, but I don't think it's worthwile to test how your application reacts when the python interpreter (or whoever, really) presents it with mangled data structures or objects or whatnot. To put it differently, yes, servers have bugs, but the place to fix them is in the server. If we can't rely on our layers/abstractions to hold, I feel we lose most if not all benefits of having them in the first place. Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
