[Zope3-dev] Re: The bug fixing problem

[Jim Fulton]

On Jul 6, 2006, at 10:11 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:

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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.

Good point.

OTOH, well I'll mention the other hand in a separate post. :)

Jim

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