[Zope-Coders] More testing

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Tue, 09 Oct 2001 16:48:09 +0100


Steve Alexander wrote:
> 
> If I want to check in a bugfix, that poses the question of why there is
> a bug to be fixed. That suggests the bug was not covered by a test, and
> therefore, we need a test that proves the bug is fixed, that would have
> failed before the bugfix.

Well, to get a little XP, you should probably add the test _first_ and make sure
it fails and is therefore excercising the code you're about to fix.

It then becomes trivial to know when you're done: all the tests pass! :-)

cheers,

Chris