Jim Fulton wrote:
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I would say that there are two bugs in the case you are describing: the
one you meant to fix and the one which is the lack of any tests for the
module / class / whatever. I would bet that spending your thirty
minutes adding minimal tests to such a module is a *higher*
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 08:48:39PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In many cases, I can convince myself that a fix does actually work without
performing a test -- at least in the sense that it removes one bug.
In many cases I have made completely trivial bug fixes that I was
absolutely
On Jul 6, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christian Theune wrote at 2006-7-5 11:46 +0200:
...
Another thing are the rules about unit tests. Some bugs touch
areas that
are poorly tested. When I fix a bug over there, do I have to work
harder
to
On Jul 6, 2006, at 2:03 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
On 7/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I have introduced secondary bugs in my fixes (which occasionally
happened), then a unit test would not have helped. The reason was
then
that the affected code was used in
On Jul 6, 2006, at 10:11 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
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Christian Theune wrote:
Hi,
Marius Gedminas wrote:
I do not think that the requirements to
4. Write unit tests
5. Merge bugfixes from trunk to the release branch
6. Wait for the incredibly slow
Hi,
Jim Fulton wrote:
On Jul 6, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christian Theune wrote at 2006-7-5 11:46 +0200:
...
Another thing are the rules about unit tests. Some bugs touch areas
that
are poorly tested. When I fix a bug over there, do I
On Jul 7, 2006, at 7:52 AM, Christian Theune wrote:
Hi,
Jim Fulton wrote:
On Jul 6, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christian Theune wrote at 2006-7-5 11:46 +0200:
...
Another thing are the rules about unit tests. Some bugs touch
areas that
On 7/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I have introduced secondary bugs in my fixes (which occasionally
happened), then a unit test would not have helped. The reason was then
that the affected code was used in unanticipated ways -- and
because it was unanticipated, I would
Lennart Regebro wrote at 2006-7-6 20:03 +0200:
On 7/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I have introduced secondary bugs in my fixes (which occasionally
happened), then a unit test would not have helped. The reason was then
that the affected code was used in unanticipated ways
