From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2009-03-30T09:09:57+09:00
Subject: Re: testy.rb - ruby testing that's mad at the world

Jeremy Hinegardner wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 07:22:35AM +0900, ara.t.howard wrote:
>> if we accept the research and assume that bugs scale linerarly with the # 
>> of lines of code this is not good for robustness.  this is one of my main 
>> gripes with current ruby testing - my current rails app has about 1000 
>> lines of code and 25,000 lines of testing framework!

I incredibly don't understand that. Our apps are big by Rails standards, yet our 
test:code ratio is only 2.5:1. That's mostly because we can't "refactor" the 
tests too much, or they are hard to read.