From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-11-03T14:20:09+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby programming best practice

Phlip wrote:
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 
>> By the way, testing can only show the *presence* of defects, not their
>> absence.
>>
>> :)
> 
> Is there _anyone_ here who didn't know that already??

I don't really know. Invariably, someone will post a question about
tools, or the language, or strong typing, or compile-time checking, or
processes, or practices, or just about anything, and the answer will
come back, "testing is good". I know testing is good. But sometimes I
wonder if we aren't expecting too much from testing.