On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 19:02:09 -0800, msustik wrote: > My changes were elsewhere and I did not notice the above one line > change when I looked at the diffs before commit. I should have noticed > it... > > It was rare that a was 1 and therefore the problem did not show up for > a while. (I know I should have had tests exercising all cases...) > > When the bug showed up, it was kind of difficult to remember what was > the original intent. Fortunately, looking at old versions allowed me > to find the problem commit and the bug. > > Any suggestion on how to avoid this type of error in the future?
I think you just mentioned the best suggestions: (a) have a good collection of unit tests (where "good" means data and branch coverage), and (b) look carefully, or have someone else look carefully, at every commit. Dan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
