On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > Most of the standard library is untested. > > Indeed. I would suggest looking at the Tcl test suite. It's very > thorough! When I look at many of the test modules we *do* have, I > cringe at how little of the module the test actually covers. Many > tests (not the good ones!) seem to be content with checking that all > functions in a module *exist*. Much of this dates back to one > particular period in 1996-1997 when we (at CNRI) tried to write test > suites for all modules -- clearly we were in a hurry! :-( Here's a suggestion for easily getting hints about what test suites to write: go through the list of open bugs, and write a "would have caught" test. At worst, we will actually have to fix some bugs <wink>. -- Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il> There is no IGLU cabal. http://advogato.org/person/moshez
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