On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >> > > I smell a PHB¹ in the wings...
It seems likely, yes. That's where the "c'mon guys, get those tests to pass" impetus usually comes from. The geeks usually know that tests are a tool, not a goal, although the more evil ones might still wield that knowledge... http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/1998/bastard98-35.php ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
