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

Jesse Noller jnoller at gmail.com
Wed Sep 17 11:38:34 PDT 2008



On Sep 17, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Grig Gheorghiu <grig at gheorghiu.net> wrote:

> --- On Wed, 9/17/08, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:
>
>> It's really all about expectations, IMO:
>>
>> Unit and functional tests tell me when the code fails my
>> expectations.
>>
>> Regression tests tell me when something unexpected happens.
>>
>> Acceptance tests tell me when the code fails my
>> customer's expectations.
>>
>
> Couldn't have said it better :-) I sense a blog post there, Titus :-)
>
>

Sure, if he wants to start a holy war - the definitions he's using are  
fairly developer centric, rather than testing group specific



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