Hi all. I believe in programming there is a common consensus to avoid code duplication, I suppose such terms like 'DRY' are meant to back this idea. Anyways, I'm working on a little project and I'm using TDD (still trying to get a hang of the process) and am trying to test the functionality within a method. Whoever it so happens to verify the output from the method I have to employ the same algorithm within the method to do the verification since there is no way I can determine the output before hand.
So in this scenario is it OK to duplicate the algorithm to be tested within the test codes or refactor the method such that it can be used within test codes to verify itself(??). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
