From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2009-02-09T15:57:26+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] heckle 1.4.2 Released

Ryan Davis wrote:
>
> heckle version 1.4.2 has been released!
>
> * <http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/seattlerb>
> * <http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/heckle>
>
> Heckle is unit test sadism(tm) at it's core. Heckle is a mutation 
> tester. It modifies your code and runs your tests to make sure they 
> fail. The idea is that if code can be changed and your tests don't 
> notice, either that code isn't being covered or it doesn't do anything.
>
> It's like hiring a white-hat hacker to try to break into your server 
> and making sure you detect it. You learn the most by trying to break 
> things and watching the outcome in an act of unit test sadism.
>
> Changes:
>
> ### 1.4.2 / 2009-02-08
>
> * 2 bug fixes:
>
>   * Fixed Ruby2Ruby dependency and Ruby2Ruby references (name changed).
>     Reported by David Chelimsky
>   * Fix bug #11435 where [:iter, [:call], ...] would cause an endless
>     loop.  Reported by Thomas Preymesser.
>
> * <http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/seattlerb>
> * <http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/heckle>
>
>
>
Ryan, it's not entirely clear to me that "eval" is evil, but you sure 
are! Ha!

What a wonderful idea you have here...

t.

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