Lennart Regebro wrote at 2006-7-6 20:03 +0200: >On 7/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> When I have introduced secondary bugs in my fixes (which occasionally >> happened), then a unit test would not have helped. The reason was then >> that the affected code was used in unanticipated ways -- and >> because it was unanticipated, I would not have written a test for it. > >Sure. The point of the tests is not to prevent this. The point of them >is mainly to make sure that the thing you fixed says fixed.
I hear (also) other sounds than unit tests ;-) Thus, my fixes can say "fixed" differently (without a passing unit test)... -- Dieter _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
