[Zope3-dev] The Zope Software Certification Program and Common
Repository Proposal
Benji York
benji at zope.com
Tue Feb 21 12:31:56 EST 2006
Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On 2/21/06, Benji York <benji at zope.com> wrote:
>
>>Again, not for the average user, bit if the hypothetical six month bug
>>were found and those tests were decently written doctests, it would be
>>much easier for the maintainer to follow what the test was doing.
>
> Maybe an example can help. Because I don't understand why...
<snip code>
I'm not saying that the *format* makes them easier to maintain, I'm
saying that the format *encourages* the developer to make more
maintainable tests. If your second example had the customary
interstitial paragraphs talking about what's going on it would be easier
for a maintainer to understand.
> (btw, through all this, I assume that Jims fix for the doctest
> debugging problem that he mentioned did work, and that you now can
> insert an import pdb;pdb.set_trace() in the middle of the doctests.
> Right?)
Yep.
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Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation
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