On 2013-10-24 9:19 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > The claimed problem behind a lot of this is "too many dependencies" > making things hard to test and the idea that you can somehow make this > go away by dividing everything into tinier and tinier pieces. To some > extent this works, but at the cost of making the system as a whole > harder to understand because you have to track all the little pieces. > I doubt MediaWiki has reached the point of diminishing returns on > that, but I'm not really sure that the end-goal envisioned here is the > *right* division. Then there's the potential that individually testing a bunch of components doesn't always match what happens in the actually used code that puts everything together. So in the end you either have to also test the thing as a whole anyways. Or you end up with unit tests that are even less useful than you started because they won't catch regressions they would've originally.
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