From: kate rhodes <masukomi@...>
Date: 2006-05-04T05:43:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Sharp knives and glue

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All the things you mention unit tests not handling James? That's where
Functional and Accptance tests come in.

The fact that Instiki doesn't work under lighttpd is a poor test of if you
should recommend ruby. I would not be hard to find 10 apps in *every*
language that don't work in certain environments their creators didn't plan
for. Time consuming yes...but not hard.


>
> > Do you use unit tests?
>
>
> Yes.  And they work just fine for small project, but the cross-product of
> methods that can pass parameters to other methods in other classes that
> get
> passed down the line, etc. cannot be confidently tested with unit tests..=
.
> especially when delegates are introduced into the mix.
>
> Unit tests are not a substitute for programmers defining the rules in
> their
> code and having a tool check/enforce those rules.
>



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-Kate
(masukomi@gmail.com)

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