[Zope-Coders] How to get going :-)

[Guido van Rossum]

> There's the "continuous improvement" aspect to testing.
> 
> If I want to check in a bugfix, that poses the question of why there is 
> a bug to be fixed. That suggests the bug was not covered by a test, and 
> therefore, we need a test that proves the bug is fixed, that would have 
> failed before the bugfix.
> 
> Any thoughts on this?

That's certainly how we treat bugs in Python, for the most part.

> Can test suites get too bloaty?

Hardly.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)