From: Bret Pettichord <bret@...>
Date: 2004-07-11T05:51:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Bugtracking & UnitTests == good?

At 01:17 PM 7/6/2004, martinankerl at eml dot cc wrote:
>If a unit test fails, the bug is automatically reopened.

What if the test fails for a different reason that that which triggered the 
original bug report? Shouldn't that be a new bug report?

I'm not quite sure what the benefit of automatically reopening a bug would 
be anyway. If you don't check in code unless it passes all unit tests, then 
you'd never have to worry about this situation in the first place.

I generally think that it is more worthwhile to expend effort on tests than 
on a bug tracking system.


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