On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > In the absence of correctness proofs for your code, anything you do (unit > tests, assertions, regression tests, etc.) is just a statistically sampling > of all the potential paths your code might take, hoping to capture bugs. As > any statistician will tell you, eventually you will reach the point of > diminishing returns, where adding more samples isn't worth the cost. That > point will depend on the cost in programmer effort, the performance > implications, and your confidence in the code.
That's about the size of it, I guess. How much testing versus how much time actually spent coding? I'm pretty sure a lot of my code has the wrong ratio... I'm just not sure, for a lot of the code, which direction it's wrong :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
