Re: Re: Stop Breaking Our Apps For the Sake of OO

On Thu, May 11, 2006 3:58 pm, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Marcus has a point here. People are complaining loudly about bugs > being > introduced. These bugs would have been found quicker if we had better > tests. If every complaint included a nice clean .phpt test file that > can be dropped right into the system, things would go a lot smoother. > Then the discussions can focus on those tests and how exactly we want > something to behave instead of people getting up in arms over things > that were obviously not intended to break. I also think it's important for .phpt files to not just disappear nor be changed as a General Principle... Regression testing against an ongoing body of QA tests is a Good Thing, imho. If a .phpt file HAS to be changed, in the sense of an intentional change to the language, I'd actually prefer a NEW .phpt file -- so that we KNOW the old test "breaks" in version X+1 but it should still PASS in version X. But that's just this naive reader... -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm