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[Help-smalltalk] Re: GNU vs. Squeak vs. VW
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Stephen Compall |
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[Help-smalltalk] Re: GNU vs. Squeak vs. VW |
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Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:47:08 -0500 |
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.
--
;;; Stephen Compall ** http://scompall.nocandysw.com/blog **
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