[fpc-pascal] FPCUnit article/tutorial online.

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Mon Oct 10 10:35:08 CEST 2005


Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Tony Pelton wrote:
> 
>> i started to write a rather lengthy reply to this note, and realized i
>> was starting to rant.
>>
>> so i'm gonna shorten my reply up quite a bit.
>>
>> i'm a java web app programmer by trade. i use Pascal for fun stuff.
>>
>> up until a couple of years ago, i went through a series of companies
>> where i couldn't escape the _nightmare_ of unit testing mantra, being
>> forced down the development teams throat ... _usually_ with a whole
>> helping of other ridicoulous development "paradigms" freshly read by
>> the manager right out of "CIO" magazine.
>>
> 
> Your story is an example of how a 'good' technology can be ruined by
> applying it too much or in an inappropriate way. Alas, this happens too
> often when people who actually don't have a clue start dicating the
> rules.
> 
> But that doesn't mean this technology is bad. FPC uses a testsuite
> (not based on FPCunit) to test the compiler. And luckily so, because
> this has helped the compiler team to eliminate bugs on many an occasion.

Without the regression tests of our testsuite, FPC would have much less quality
than it has now. Also code reviewing is something which helps a lot for complex
stuff.




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