On Saturday 22 December 2007 05:22:05 Andreas J. Koenig wrote: > 1. You get a fail report with an error message that doesn't tell you > exactly what went wrong. > > 2. You rewrite your test in a way that it does tell you more. > > 3. Release. > > 4. If you now understand the problem, fix it, else goto 1.
I agree in principle, but in practice I seem to get a lot of failure reports from someone who's installed Perl on Windows into a directory with spaces in the name, and whatever installer there is just can't cope with that situation. I'm not sure how to write a test for "Tester's installation of Perl is fatally broken and can't actually install anything." -- c
