[Zope3-dev] Re: The bug fixing problem

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 08:48:39PM +0200, dieter at handshake.de wrote:
> In many cases, I can convince myself that a fix does actually work without
> performing a test -- at least in the sense that it removes one bug.

In many cases I have made completely trivial bug fixes that I was
absolutely confident about.  I wrote unit tests for those bug fixes only
out of habit.

Quite often I was surprised when my "superfluous" tests caught bugs in
my trivial bugfixes.

Marius Gedminas
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