[TIP] Ideology

[Doug Hellmann]

On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:17 AM, C. Titus Brown wrote:

> -> Your test framework should have unit tests - and yes, you'll need  
> to
> -> treat it like any other piece of software, tests, docs, and  
> debugging.
>
> Aiee, that sounds like work!
>
> -> Better to have to test and debug a framework, then to shove the
> -> complexity down into hundreds of tests, which would ultimately  
> result
> -> in fantastic amounts of copy/pasting within the tests.
>
> Well, yes.

Right, that's exactly the sort of thing that came up with our old test  
framework.  That, and at some point I was the only one who understood  
it.  The new one seems to be easier for the other developers to adopt.

> -> It's a matter of choice: where do you want the complexity to lie?  
> In
> -> the framework designer's bucket, or the test designer's? I tend
> -> towards the latter obviously (consider the abstractions that Django
> -> provides).
>
> I'd rather it be simple. No complexity allowed. Didn't you read my  
> blog
> post??

Maybe if you gave more detail about the nature of the complexity  
you're thinking about adding we could give more direct answers.

Doug