[Help-smalltalk] Re: GNU vs. Squeak vs. VW

[Stephen Compall]

On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 09:20 +0300, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Needless to say, unit tests are fundamental if debugging is a little 
> harder.  Up to a while ago I was lazy and used a "test" method which had 
> to print only "true"s, but now I saw the light and many more GST 
> packages come with SUnit testsuites (more on that next week).

In my reckoning, debugging is hardly a replacement for unit tests, where
unit tests can partially substitute for debugging, so I just write unit
tests anyway.  See Test-Presource.st in
http://nocandysw.com/starchive/NoCandyPresource.star for an example;
packages/stinst/parser/RewriteTests.st was originally written just to
guarantee behavior I rely on in Presource, because rewriting is such a
useful way to write message macros.

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