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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CONTRIBUTE - writing tests for understanding internals
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:15:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8337wbjisw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56443CDF.8030802@online.de>

> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:16:47 +0100
> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@online.de>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
>   On 11.11.2015 16:40, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > [ ... ]
> > written by someone who is not the implementor.  I'm sure you are
> > familiar with the TDD methodology, whose strong point is precisely
> > that you write tests before implementing anything.
> 
> Hmm, looks for me like TDD established a kind of religion too.
> How to write tests without knowing the types?

The API should be defined when you write the tests, but the
implementation doesn't yet exist.




  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-12 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-10 22:48 [PATCH] CONTRIBUTE - writing tests for understanding internals Przemysław Wojnowski
2015-11-10 22:58 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-11  3:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-11  7:45   ` Przemysław Wojnowski
2015-11-11  8:26     ` Andreas Röhler
2015-11-11 15:40       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-11 15:40     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-11 21:08       ` Przemysław Wojnowski
2015-11-11 21:26         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-11 21:36           ` John Wiegley
2015-11-12  3:40             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-11 21:48           ` Przemysław Wojnowski
2015-11-12  7:16       ` Andreas Röhler
2015-11-12 16:15         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-11-12 20:03           ` Stephen Leake
2015-11-12 20:40             ` Andreas Röhler
2015-11-12 20:55               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-12 21:42                 ` Przemysław Wojnowski
2015-11-13  7:33                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-13  8:03                     ` Andreas Röhler

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