[Zope3-dev] Re: The bug fixing problem

[Lennart Regebro]

On 7/6/06, dieter at handshake.de <dieter at handshake.de> wrote:
> When I have introduced secondary bugs in my fixes (which occasionally
> happened), then a unit test would not have helped. The reason was then
> that the affected code was used in unanticipated ways -- and
> because it was unanticipated, I would not have written a test for it.

Sure. The point of the tests is not to prevent this. The point of them
is mainly to make sure that the thing you fixed says fixed.

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