From: David B Lightstone <david.lightstone@...>
Date: 2001-12-08T23:57:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27936] Re: John Roth dolt (  Re: A challenge to proponents of Unit Testing. )


"Robert C. Martin" <rmartin @ objectmentor . com> wrote in message
news:6nj21uo76gu2nfq92di0736dr4uags667k@4ax.com...
> On 7 Dec 2001 02:04:08 -0800, stephen.hill@motorola.com (Steve Hill)
> wrote:
>
> >What tests would you write for a function that takes 3 numbers (the
> >side lengths of a triangle) , and returns whether the triangle is
> >equilateral, scalene or isoceles.
>
> Set<int> sides; // data structure allows no duplicates.
> sides.add(a);
> sides.add(b);
> sides.add(c);
> return sides; // 1 = equilateral, 2=isoceles, 3=scalene.
>
> What am I missing?

Fault poorly defined enumerate, case NOT_A_TRIANGLE
Failure to consider the default requirement of all applications - Bullet
Proofing

Take a problem, view it differently, and unknowingly
change it. Your analysis is perfectly correct for your
simplified problem. It just isn't the problem which
was origninally presented

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