Re: [Gnu-arch-users] more on the merge-fest

[Thomas Zander]

On Wednesday 26 November 2003 12:21, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > If cause and effect are separated by 500 lines of code, then no
> > > amount of testing in 20-line chunks is going to demonstrate the
> > > problem.
> >
> > Uhh, yes.  Because those intervening 500 lines of code must,
> > themselves, also be unit-tested.
>
> So, now you know that somewhere in that 500 line chunk lies a bug. Are
> you seriously suggesting that you can often spot it by inspection?

Read up on your testing methods; there are very good ways to test each if 
and each switch in those 500 lines and let a certain test fail.
Its all about writing more tests and knowing the 'border' cases.

google for "fail fast unittest" to find out more about this.

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Thomas Zander