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

[Jim Fulton]

On Mar 11, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Andreas Jung wrote:
...
> You can also document your edgecase in the same way as comments  
> within your
> unittests.

This is true in theory, but in practice, it almost never happens.

There is no guarantee that doctests will contain useful text, but they  
encourage text which has a greater chance of being useful than no text  
at all.

> Agreed. But unittests are for certain tests more suitable. E.g. if  
> you need a complex and bigger fixture or something like that.


Unit testst don't make it any easier or harder to write test  
fixtures.  They *do* encourage the use of inheritance to write text  
fixtures, which tends, in my experience to make them harder to  
understand.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation