I've randomly read this topic in between CSS and short cigarette
breaks, and noted this part:

"About the tests. They are not heavy in the bandwidth sense. They just
clutter the design page and new users get lost. There is aleady too
much stuff in the design page. I am even considering hiding
appadmin.py and appadmin.html." -- Massimo

Some simple test suites included in the default app is not a bad idea,
imho. It helps newbies acquire some testing skills and more
importantly, learn how tests are done in _real-life_ as opposed to
testing "hello world" applications.

In my 2 years as programming hobbyist, I've gotten the impression that
testing is for advanced users, and have never seen a complete beginner
tutorial include any testing. So, after 2 years, I still haven't done
serious testing myself.

And I see no reason why this should be the case. From the little
testing I've done so far, I don't see any reason why testing shouldn't
be introduced as early as possible, especially since it solves lots of
problems during development. So I think it would be great if test
suites are included in sample web2py app or two.

Speaking of clutter, would it be possible to hide the "test"
icon/button for files that do not really include any tests? That would
clear the clutter.

-- 
Branko Vukelić

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