From: truediogen@... (Vladimir) Date: 2001-12-20T07:08:10+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:29006] Re: John Roth dolt ( Re: A challenge to proponents of Unit Testing. ) rbinder@rbsc.com (Bob Binder) wrote in message news:... > Skipping tests of exception handling because it is too difficult is > like arguing that testing automotive safety equipment (air bags, seat > belts, ...) should be skipped because you have to crash a perfectly > good car, and accidents don't happen all that often anyway, and trust > me, we're certain those belts will hold. In point of fact, if you > design exception handling for testability and use some straightforward > test driver patterns to deal with this problem, it isn't any harder to > test exception code than normal case code. I love it! Thank you for stating so perfectly what I had on mind but ever failed to explain. :) ---- Best Wishes, Vladimir