[Zope3-dev] Re: The bug fixing problem

[Chris Withers]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> I disagree. How would you make sure that your fix for even a "trivial"
> NameError actually works? Perhaps you introduced another typo in the
> bugfix? Or perhaps another problem pops up in the same codepath.
> Clearly, since the NameError didn't occur in any other tests, the
> codepath hasn't been tested yet, so it should be no matter what.
> 
> There's another aspect to tests for bugs: reproduceability. Especially
> when fixing bugs I tend to write tests first in order to be absolutely
> sure that I can reproduce the problem in an automated manner. Then
> fixing the bug is "easy": Just make the test pass...

+sys.maxint to all of the above!

Chris

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