On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <[email protected]>wrote:

> In my unit test, I want to make sure that my output equals the
> expectedOutput, but:
>    TestCase>>assert: expected equals: actual
>
> It feels wrong to me. It seems that I want to make an assertion about my
> class's behavior and I would like to write:
>    self assert: output equals: expectedOutput.
>
> What do you all think?
>

Personnally I prefer

assert: expected equals: actual

because the first thing I have to think about is what I expect, not how to
get it. So for me it feels more natural to write it this way.

Laurent.


>
> Thanks.
> Sean
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