<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:31 AM, C. Titus Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ctb@msu.edu">ctb@msu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:24:46AM -0700, Noah Gift wrote:<br>
-> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Terry Peppers <<a href="mailto:peppers@gmail.com">peppers@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
-><br>
-> > Paul -<br>
-> ><br>
-> > That would be me and it would also be here.<br>
-> ><br>
-> > <a href="http://bitbucket.org/terryp/pycon_2009_tip_bof/" target="_blank">http://bitbucket.org/terryp/pycon_2009_tip_bof/</a><br>
-> ><br>
-><br>
-> That is a good presentation. In an earlier thread I mentioned how I was<br>
-> frustrated at the lack of real world theory with testing. I think this<br>
-> presentation could go a tad further and identify not only the type of<br>
-> testing, but the levels of testing quality vs "the real world". The saying<br>
-> you can have two of the three, "cheap, fast, or quality", but not all three<br>
-> comes mind.<br>
-><br>
-> It is very easy to say all code should have 100% unit test coverage, have<br>
-> integration tests, functional tests, etc. What I haven't seen someone talk<br>
-> about yet, is when that is appropriate in the real world and when it isn't,<br>
-> and an honest assessment of the tradeoff. I am very sold on testing code,<br>
-> but how much depends on the situation I am in.<br>
-><br>
-> PyCon 2010 Grig and Titus?<br>
<br>
</div>What, you want some more uninformed opinion? Sure thing, that's my<br>
specialty. ;)</blockquote><div><br>Yes. I generally find your opinions useful. I think a lot of Python testing theory is in the "Abstinence Cures Aids" phase :) <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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There are entire newsgroups, books, mailing lists, and professional<br>
societies devoted to figuring out the tradeoff... not sure what I can<br>
add in general.<br>
<br>
I'll be giving a talk on this subject wrt science (where I *can* say<br>
something...) in Toronto next Wednesday, passport gods willing.<br>
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--titus<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Thanks,<br><br>Noah<br>