Maybe it would be a good time to have a quick chat about this. Perhaps we could 
arrange a Skype call.

Thanks
Justin

On 2013-01-23, at 3:18 PM, Antranig Basman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 23/01/2013 12:55, Justin Obara wrote:
>> I guess I'm not clear on what this meant.
>> 
>> "So my assessment is that the "onion of testing" which we necessarily depend 
>> on in case ii) isn't
>> dangerously prejudiced by this new dependency. We can always stand to have 
>> better tests, but the area we
>> most urgently need them isn't here - it's in the area of having more plain 
>> IoC tests - but this can wait
>> until the implementation stabilises some more and we have a firm idea of 
>> what the IoC system is meant to do
>> in each situation."
>> 
>> Does that mean that there aren't enough plain jqunit test for the IoC 
>> portion of the framework?
> 
> Not by a mile - but this awaits some measure of how much is "enough". The 
> current version of IoC has too many "dark corner" features that could 
> interact in unexpected ways ("mergeAllOptions", "default options", "alias", 
> "returnedOptions" etc.) that further inhibit good testing. The version 
> currently under development has fewer apparent features (those mentioned 
> previously will be removed) which in theory would make testing easier, 
> although it will have a more intricate workflow - which implies that there 
> will need to be a lot more of "white-box testing".
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-box_testing
> 
> Cheers,
> A
> 
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