On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 10:38 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello! > > Just a note that I've been meaning to send for some time. > > "Michael Gran" <spk...@yahoo.com> writes: > > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?id=9b0c25f6d18d5be318ea3a47fd87cf7e63b689e1 > > [...] >
> I'm not fully convinced by some of these "string internals" tests, > though. These are "white box tests". I believe these tests are mostly > useful when written by someone different than the one who implemented > the code under test, both of whom following a given specification. When > someone writes both the code and the white box tests, I'm afraid they > end up writing the same code twice, just differently. For example: I know what your saying. I was just a kid with a new toy. In my line of work, where 100% code coverage of test suites is a common requirement, we end up writing many such overly obvious tests. They are often the only way to hit some internal branches. They are often pointless. > What do you think? Keep it or dump it. It's all good. > > Thanks, > Ludo'. Thanks, Mike
