On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > When the two young lads from the consultants I was working with back in 2000 > found a bug with xml handling in the supplier's software I almost ended up > in tears. Why? They didn't bother reporting it, they simply modified all > their unit testing data to work around the problem, so when we got to > integration testing nothing worked at all.
See, that's not a problem with XML. That's not even a problem with unit testing. That's a problem with the belief that the most important thing is to have your tests pass. Sigh. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
