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

[Andrew Suffield]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 09:05:41AM -0800, Samuel A. Falvo II wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 November 2003 04:59 am, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > This is a clone of the "more granularity" appeal, and it's still
> > wrong. You are operating under the assumption that the tests form a
> > complete, correct description of the behaviour of the program (if this
> > were true, then you could simply deploy the test suite and skip
> > writing the program).
> 
> False.  You are equating the unit test suite with the production code.  A 
> test suite is designed to detect faults in the production code, it is 
> itself NOT the production code.

Yes, that was my point.

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