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Re: What goes in a test suite?

by Anonymous Monk
on Aug 22, 2003 at 09:14 UTC ( [id://285720]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to What goes in a test suite?

My high-school programming teacher kept demanding precondition, postcondition, for every function we wrote. A test suite should ensure post condition happens when precondition happens ;)

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Re^2: What goes in a test suite?
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Aug 22, 2003 at 10:57 UTC

    That's certainly one thing that tests should do. But there are many more also (e.g. do you get appropriate error reporting when pre-condition is not met on a function, does the application as a whole exhibit appropriate behaviour, etc.)

    You might also want to look at Design By Contract as an alternative way of using pre-conditions, post-conditions and invariants in software development.

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