First to the original poster, there is a way to do this but I would be asking why you would want to first. With comments being used for annotated validation for hyrule, to annotated comments for ORM. If it is just to purely find code that has been commented out, and needs removing then a search and look method is perhaps the best option.
Secondly to the argument of TDD and comments. Let me first clear up that TDD and BDD and tests in general, are there to code coverage our code. So that there is no unexpected problems in the future, TDD and BDD are primarily for input and output. That doesn't mean you can't comment on the tests to say what ever you like to say. But tests will not cover the likes of known bugs and work around's to achieve such results, Now I have comments that as stated above are for annotated validation for hyrule. And although they are tested through TDD, they are still comments. Secondly, I have rest / web services that describe what is being returned from third parties. These are not covered by tests and my part as it is not my code, but the comments make it very clear what is returned in the body of the function. In that example the calls to the rest and web services, are not affecting the final output of the result returned, where tests cover that. But it does let the developer know that while in there making changes they can see the expected results and any further outcomes to the code. Sorry but I am on the side that comments are a big and necessary thing, that even I will admit to not doing enough off, but required in more cases than not. TDD is not the place to dictate why something was written the way it was written, its job is to secure and pass on anything that is / might be passed into that is not expected and cope with a return result. How would these tests know why I wrote certain code the way that I did, because of trying to get around a known issue? Would I place that comment in the tests, no I would not, the comment is related to the way the function behaves and not if it passes or fails because someone wants to ignore the comments. -- Regards, Andrew Scott WebSite: http://www.andyscott.id.au/ Google+: http://plus.google.com/108193156965451149543 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:350184 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
