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

Stephan Richter srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu
Mon Mar 10 23:33:13 EDT 2008


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
-- 
Stephan Richter
Web Software Design, Development and Training
Google me. "Zope Stephan Richter"


More information about the Zope-Dev mailing list