On Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 5:38:12 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Mark Lawrence 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. >
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