Antoon Pardon wrote: > Op 2006-01-10, Terry Hancock schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>In unit testing, you write the code, then write code to test >>the code, which must correctly identify the methods in the >>code. So you have to type 'everything' twice. > > But you don't type attribute names twice in unit tests, > because attributes are in general implementation details > that are of no concern to the tester. So unit tests can > not introduce the redundancy to find out a missed spelled > attribute in some methods.
I wouldn't call attributes "implementation details", at least not in Python. And while it is true that unit tests might not find the misspelling *directly* (i.e. you rarely test if you have misspelled something), your tests should definitely show unexpected behavior and results, if that attribute is of any importance. Otherwise there's a loophole in your tests. :-) -- Hans Nowak http://zephyrfalcon.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
