Better write a test or a comment for a given method? Was: Re:
Two Squeak-related bugs and three questions
Klaus D. Witzel
klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Fri Jun 16 07:15:06 UTC 2006
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:20:45 +0200, Markus Gaelli wrote:
> If there were a discussion to introduce a "documentation space" shown
> next to a given method to document it (as it is the case for classes
> right now) I'd strongly argue to use it for tests -- and not for
> comments.
+1
One could even go further and design new syntax elements (vs. properties
unknown to the compiler) for attaching tests to methods, so reflecting the
importance of tests.
In a not so distant future, perhaps, the compiler would only accept code
if all the tests which are attached to the input pass (this scenario would
include the case where a method change makes a test fail) who knows :)
/Klaus
> Cheers,
>
> Markus
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