On Monday 16 July 2007 08:44, Jim Fulton wrote: > For me, post-mortem debugging or using set_trace is almost always > good enough. On those occasions where I really need to step through a > series of example, It's straightforward to convert them to a single > example.
Me too. Actually I only use set_trace() and I always quickly find what I need. > In general I find well-written doctests easier to debug because they > have documentation and the documentation makes their intent clearer. I agree. > Well written doctests will have documentation even when they aren't > intended as documentation. Of course, it could be argued that well > written classic tests will have comments. I think that doctest > facilitates writing good tests, as I have see far more well-written > doctests than I've seen well-written classic tests. Amen. :-) I think we can say this about ourselves too. We (Zope 3 developers) have written much better tests since we started using doctests. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com