On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 15:21 +0100, Eric Plummer wrote: > 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...
Oh, I know it's not necessarily accurate, don't get me wrong. But as I said, if I don't trust the code written by other developers, why should I put any trust in the tests they wrote? > 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. And that's fine - I'm not trying to convince everyone else that running tests is unnecessary. I just don't find it worth my time, running tests for every piece of software I install. Simon.
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