[Zope-dev] Re: zope.sendmail Retry fixes and new state machine.

[Stephan Richter]

On Monday 10 March 2008, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Indeed, and for that reason this can't be said enough. Doctests are
> useful to create testable documentation. They are not the right tool to
> create isolated, debuggable tests.

Huh? I totally disagree. If you cannot explain your software in words, you do 
not understand it. As there are different kinds of programmatic tests, you 
can easily write different levels of doctests that have different audiences. 
I do this all the time.

Regards,
Stephan
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