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Tests passed OK
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Subject: OK : Zope-2.8 Python-2.3.6 : Linux
From: Zope Tests
Date: Mon Mar 10 21:58:47 EDT 2008
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Hi Andreas. I think your response gets to the heart of the issue. For
software to be useful, it is often more important for folks other than
the author to understand it. This can only occur with communication.
Sometimes it is the understanding of edgecases in particular, that gets
lost over tim
Dieter Maurer wrote:
Looks at the ZODB tests. They make heavy use of multiple inheritance
to compose test classes out of component test classes
Good point; the ZODB tests make a great argument for using doctest over
unittest.
and use the same tests e.g. for "FileStorage" as well as for "ZEO
I hate to add more to this discussion, but I think some folks might
have some miss-conceptions about doctests:
On Mar 10, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
...
Becuase they make for poor unit tests? Using them to document the
"mainline" use cases for an API is one thing: using them to
--On 11. März 2008 09:42:11 -0300 David Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi Andreas. I think your response gets to the heart of the issue. For
software to be useful, it is often more important for folks other than
the author to understand it. This can only occur with communication.
Sometimes
On Mar 11, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Andreas Jung wrote:
...
You can also document your edgecase in the same way as comments
within your
unittests.
This is true in theory, but in practice, it almost never happens.
There is no guarantee that doctests will contain useful text, but they
encourage te
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On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 20:54 -0400, Gary Poster wrote:
> I did have one somewhat trivial thought. I generally prefer durations
> and intervals expressed as datetime.timedeltas myself, because they
> convey their meaning without having to look it up docs (is that number
> value a number
On Mar 11, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Matthew Grant wrote:
Hi!
On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 20:54 -0400, Gary Poster wrote:
I did have one somewhat trivial thought. I generally prefer
durations
and intervals expressed as datetime.timedeltas myself, because they
convey their meaning without having to look
