Simon Geard wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 12:00 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: >> Interesting. I have more faith in my own code than I do in others'. >> You apparently trust others' works more than you do your own. > > It's more that I see automated testing as being for the developer's > benefit - so when writing code, it's essential to have tests a) covering > as much of the code as possible, and b) passing reliably. That's > important, because if I make a change and break something else, *I'm* > the one who has to explain that to a customer. And that's not fun. It's > my reputation on the line. > > As to trust, it's more that I assume that other developers have their > own standards, and if they're willing to call something a stable > release, they've done the work to ensure they have confidence in it. And > if they haven't, well - what confidence should I have that their > automated tests are useful?
Simon: That is one heck of an assumption... If you assume everyone else does their job properly, I have a used car you might be interested in... Testing is not only for the program in question, it can also check for proper interaction with external required libs/progs. Have you ever heard that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure? I would much rather test something before depending on it to perform a task in a predictable manner. -- Eric Plummer anadox...@gmail.com -- Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. No top posting, please. -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
