[Zope3-dev] Re: The bug fixing problem

[Tres Seaver]

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Christian Theune wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Marius Gedminas wrote:
>> I do not think that the requirements to
>> 4. Write unit tests
>> 5. Merge bugfixes from trunk to the release branch
>> 6. Wait for the incredibly slow updates on the collector
>>
>> discourage me all that much.
> 
> Right. They don't discourage me either, but there is a special case in
> 4) which I hit several times lately, where the unit tests need very
> special effort.
> 
>> I think that if more bug reports had a solution outlined in English, I'd
>> be more likely to go fix them every now and them.
> 
> Indeed!

I would say that there are two bugs in the case you are describing:  the
one you meant to fix and the one which is the lack of any tests for the
module / class / whatever.  I would bet that spending your thirty
minutes adding minimal tests to such a module is a *higher* value
activity than fixing most bugs, because it makes it easier for you (or
someone else) to fix that bug and others in that module.


Tres.
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