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Re: omitted test scripts?

From
Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date
Sep 19, 2005, 18:54 UTC
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<pan.2005.09.19.18.54.38.742376@smurf.noris.de>
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Hi, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> In the past, when I did any major butchering of existing code or
> made nontrivial additions, I wrote test scripts to cover what
> should happen (and what to be preserved) first to make sure the
> changes or additions would not introduce regression.
... which is very good programming practice regardless.

One of the better tenets of Extreme Programming says that any feature for which you don't have a test basically doesn't exist. 

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