From: Stefan Schmiedl Date: 2001-12-03T15:54:58+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:27328] Re: Quantitative Unit-testing? Phlip (2001-12-03 13:20): > A call to arms! whom shall we fight? we don't disagree, Phlip. > > unit tests help you immensely in diagnosing problems, both early > > and late in development. they are no silver bullet. you still need > > to apply whatever knowledge you have acquired. > > They are a bullet with a very high albedo. That's why they are taught to > freshpersons in their first semester of programming classes. what good is a silver bullet if it can't fly? the unit test gun is a healthy combination of other (xp preferred here) practices. unit tests without refactoring would become unmaintainable quite fast, i imagine. > > Yes, of course. It would make perfect sense to do things the way that great > bastion of rock-solid code and thrifty processes, Microsoft, does things. thanks for a grin so soon in the morning :-) s. -- Stefan Schmiedl EDV-Beratung, Programmierung, Schulung Loreleystr. 5, 94315 Straubing, Germany Tel. (0 94 21) 74 01 06 Public Key: http://xss.de/stefan.public shhhh ... I can't hear my code!