note TheDamian <blockquote><i> It is kind of far-fetched to talk about testing here. </i></blockquote> Hmmmmm. Maybe I didn't make the smiley big enough. Let's try again: <blockquote> guess it's just as well that Chapter 18 suggests testing everything before you deploy it! <font size="+4"><tt>;-)</tt></font> </blockquote> The point I was trying to make is <em>not</em> that you should rely on the testing to catch this problem, but that, if you don't catch the problem earlier, the testing phase should still do so. <p>In other words, (just exactly as you say) best practices ought to be an integrated process, so even if one practice introduces a problem, another practice should catch it. Which is precisely what my book advocates. 488824 488842