From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-08-26T00:07:07+09:00
Subject: Re: The Chainsaw Infanticide Logger Manuever

On Aug 24, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Jeff Wood wrote:
> So, you would then have a front-row seat if something was affecting
> the logger output.

... which would lead you on the 3 hour hunt that Zed was complaining  
about originally, to finally find the problem was someone else's  
library.

You'd know just about as instantly as Zed did that something was  
wrong. And you'd still have no idea what was causing the bug, or how  
to fix it.

Unit tests are great, but I fail to see how they would have undone  
ANY of the harm that the original library did, or how they would have  
made Zed's life any easier in this one case.