On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 02:18:49PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote:
> Tests are all about quantity.
I always thought that tests were about malice:
"I bet the programmer didn't think of this..."
"What happens if I just do this..."
"Mmm, I wonder if it covers this corner case?"
"Eat pathological data and die!"
"Surrender feeble routine. You are no match for the weaponry of my tests!"
Then again, I do like having lots of tests. And parameterising tests so that
I can feed the same basic test lots of different permutations of the data.
[To attempt to send the most variations of malice, in the hope that one of
them knocks out the routine and finds a bug]
Nicholas Clark
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