[Zope3-dev] The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

[Benji York]

Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On 2/21/06, Benji York <benji at zope.com> wrote:
> 
>>Again, not for the average user, bit if the hypothetical six month bug
>>were found and those tests were decently written doctests, it would be
>>much easier for the maintainer to follow what the test was doing.
> 
> Maybe an example can help. Because I don't understand why...

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I'm not saying that the *format* makes them easier to maintain, I'm 
saying that the format *encourages* the developer to make more 
maintainable tests.  If your second example had the customary 
interstitial paragraphs talking about what's going on it would be easier 
for a maintainer to understand.

> (btw, through all this, I assume that Jims fix for the doctest
> debugging problem that he mentioned did work, and that you now can
> insert an import pdb;pdb.set_trace() in the middle of the doctests.
> Right?)

Yep.
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Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation