From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-02-13T19:00:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Unit Testing Private Methods

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 08:16:22AM +0900, Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:46:11AM +0900, Travis Whitton wrote:
> > It seems that in order to be able to unit test a method it has to be
> > publicly accessible. Is there a way to use test/unit to test private methods
> > and instance variables?
> 
> I used to believe that Unit Testing would consider things in a black-box
> approach. Can somebody comment on that?

Thinking on it again, I should have written
  "white-box approach testing only public methods"

Correct?

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