Yes, that's what I meant.

On Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 12:54:50 AM UTC, Joey Eremondi wrote:
>
> The problem I see is that the tests are being generated from the code, so 
> they'll always pass.
>
> So, you say you can make a test that update Up 0 == 1. But how did we get 
> that test? We got 0 from the initial value of the model, and 1 from 
> evaluating update Up 0. So if we changed update, or changed the model, it 
> would change the test! You've basically got "update Up 0 == update Up 0", 
> which will always pass.
>
> Now, you could do something where you have a working version of your code, 
> and you generate a set of tests and save it, and then use it as regression 
> tests later on to make sure you don't accidentally change the behaviour of 
> your program, but that's more complicated. Is that the sort of thing you 
> meant?
>
> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Will White <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> The debugger has the model, msg and the new model. So if you tell it that 
>> the new model is indeed the expected return value from update msg model, 
>> it can write that test for you. To use Counter as an example:
>>
>> model = 0
>>
>> update msg model =
>>   case msg of 
>>     Up ->
>>       model + 1
>>     Down ->
>>       model - 1
>>
>> My model starts as 0. I send Up, I get 1. This is as expected so I 
>> accept. update Up 0 == 1 is now a test that the code has to pass.
>>
>>
>> I have raised this here as a feature request: 
>> https://github.com/elm-lang/virtual-dom/issues/75 (see also Peter Gao's 
>> comment). Can you foresee any problems with this feature? Would it in fact 
>> be useless? I don't have a lot of testing experience.
>>
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