Re: On white-box tests

2009-08-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mike Gran writes: > I wrote the string-internals tests to indicate to me when I'd done > something that had unexpected side-effects. They are intentionally > white-box; they are intentionally reflexive. OK, I understand now. Then if it's useful to you, well, it's indeed useful. :-) > But, I

Re: On white-box tests

2009-08-19 Thread Mike Gran
On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 15:53 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Mike Gran writes: > > > On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 10:38 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I just wanted to hear what you and others thought about the issue, > because I think unit tests are a crucial part of software development. OK. To say

Re: On white-box tests

2009-08-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mike Gran writes: > On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 10:38 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...] >> What do you think? > > Keep it or dump it. It's all good. Just to be clear: I think we can keep them, it doesn't hurt. I just wanted to hear what you and others thought about the issue, because I think uni

Re: On white-box tests

2009-08-19 Thread Mike Gran
On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 10:38 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello! > > Just a note that I've been meaning to send for some time. > > "Michael Gran" writes: > > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?id=9b0c25f6d18d5be318ea3a47fd87cf7e63b689e1 > > [...] > > I'm not fully convinc