[TIP] why you should distribute tests with your application / module

Michael Gratton michael at quuxo.com
Tue Sep 16 17:00:46 PDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 15:34 -0500, Pete wrote:
> Because I need to know what's in the data so that I can verify that  
> full text queries against it return the correct results. How do you  
> make sure your code is giving you the right output if you're feeding  
> it random input?  Makes no sense to me...

That's why you generate the test data in the fixture, right? You know
what it is because you created it in setUp().

/Mike

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Michael Gratton <michael at quuxo.com>     
Quuxo Software <http://web.quuxo.com/>
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