From: Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
Date: 2001-12-03T07:40:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27297] Re: Quantitative Unit-testing? (Re: John Roth dolt (  Re: A challenge to   proponents of Unit Testing. )

On Sun, 02 Dec 2001 16:05:40 -0500, Panu Viljamaa <panu@fcc.net>
wrote:

>If we start system building from tests first,  we could declare that the tests *are*  the "Specification" of the system. Then the question turns into: "How can we know all assumptions other components make about my component are expressed by my unit tests?".  I.e. how can we know nobody is violating the contract/specification expressed by my tests-code?

Their tests run?

Ronald E Jeffries
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