From: Panagiotis Atmatzidis <ml@...>
Date: 2012-08-07T05:12:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Questions about test-driven development and optparse

Hello,

On 6 Αυγ 2012, at 20:44 , Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex@gmail.com> wrote:

> If I were you, I wouldn't use regexps for testing the output here.
> That would imply that you're basically only checking that the output
> format is right.
> 
> You should probably take a simple, short log file, and package it with
> the tests. Then run it once for each options combination you want to
> test, save the output (which you have manually verified is correct),
> and write a test that checks the the output still looks exactly the
> same.
> 
> 
> You could also just forget about tests here entirely. What you have
> here is (when you don't count country code list and documentation) a
> 100-line script that does just one thing, and you've already verified
> it works. Tests are only useful in one case – when you are making
> changes to your software and want to make sure they don't introduce
> bugs in old code.
> 
> Still, it might turn out later that you actually need to change stuff,
> and then you'll be wishing you wrote the tests earlier :(
> 
> -- Matma Rex
> 



Thanks for the info. Your idea of writing tests makes sense... I'll give it a try as an exercise.

Thanks!

Panagiotis Atmatzidis
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