[TIP] Ideology

[Michael Foord]

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!
>   

Anything we move into the framework we test.

Tests that test tests are fun. :-)

Like all good agile exponents we don't believe in documentation though. :-o

> -> 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.
>
> -> 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??
>
> --titus, rearranging the world around him since the late '80s...
>   

Well there's necessary complexity and unnecessary complexity...

Michael

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