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Perhaps you've chosen a bad example... (Score:1)
It seems to me that the example you give is ultimately a poor test. You’re relying upon an implicit feature of the testing interface to test for explicit behaviors of your code. As a person new to your project how I am supposed to know that
list()is only ever supposed to return two elements? Sure the tests fail but how do I know that the tests were correct in the first place?By making an explicit test for the explicit behavior, I can communicate to someone else that I’m expecting
list()to onlRe: (Score:1)
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Re:Perhaps you've chosen a bad example... (Score:1)
done_testingfor future code.Reply to This
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