[Shootout-list] Many tests cheat

Einar Karttunen ekarttun@cs.helsinki.fi
Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:30:06 +0200


On 03.11 16:22, skaller wrote:
> At present it seems to me the feeling is that functional
> tests would be better than 'do it the same way' tests
> but are harder to achieve, and so the same way tests
> should stand at the moment. This seems reasonable.
> Anyone dispute that is a fair assessment of the current mood?

I think functional tests are better in most cases.
Just please provide an answer to:
 * there is no clever shortcut to the test forcing many entries to be rewritten
 * description telling what the test appears to measure
 
But please do continue working, I don't think there will be significant 
disagreements.

- Einar Karttunen