Antoon Pardon wrote: > I don't think unit tests are that helpful in this case. > Unit tests help you in finding out there is a bug, they > don't help that much in tracking down a bug. > > I for some reason a person is reading over the difference > between sumLongName and someLongName and doesn't notice > the different spelling in his source a unit test won't > be of much help. > Since 1- The unit test will obviously fail in this case, telling you in which code unit the issue is 2- Unit Test favor extremely modular coding with very short increments (as a somewhat extreme example, Robert Martin gets nervous if his test suites don't validate the code every 5 minutes, you usually don't write 200 lines and their unit tests in 5 minutes)
We can deduce that unit testing will detect the typo extremely early and that the field of research will span about 5 to 10 lines, making the tracking quite easy to perform. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
