From: Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@...>
Date: 2006-04-18T10:18:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie's Ruby IDE Editor Roundup, April 2006


>You twice mention 'reading the stack trace' in Java.  That only helps if you 
>HAVE a stack trace.  Many bugs don't involve exceptions. 
>
Yes logic bugs, where the outcome isn't as expected, but these should be 
able to be covered with a unit test.  I admit that in a complex system, 
sometimes you get to the state where the only way to test something is 
to construct a very large integration test simply to determine what is 
wrong - this basically points you towards refactoring, as a system where 
nothing can be tested without massive investment in infrastructure is 
not capable of being tested properly

> I'm all for unit 
>tests, but sometimes a debugger is faster.  
>
>  
>
I think we'll disagree on this one - which is fine :)

Kev