Re: What I hate about *Unit frameworks.

George Dinwiddie <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.test-driven-development
Organization iDIA Computing, LLC
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Adam,

On 5/1/13 11:25 PM, Adam Sroka wrote:
> Maybe I'm just dense, but: what is it about this that is particular to TDD?
> Seems to me that monkey patching without tests is *fuck all* more dangerous
> than writing a test, making it pass in the simplest way possible, and then
> improving the design. What am I missing???

Monkey patching is a common method to create testing seams, even by 
people who would not use monkey patching in the deliverable system code. 
It's a quick-and-dirty way of mocking using the real objects.

  - George

> On May 1, 2013 8:12 PM, "John Roth" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> On 5/1/13 7:12 AM, David Stanek wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Angel Java Lopez
>>> <[email protected] <mailto:ajlopez2000%40gmail.com>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> John, usually I don't find the case "this test corrupts that test",
>>> and I
>>>> wrote thousands of tests.
>>>>
>>>> Any example/case?
>>>
>>> I've seen this in Python tests where developers monkey-patch things and
>>> forget to set them back or otherwise muck with global state. This has
>> been
>>> the result of design issues.
>>>
>>
>> Snort. This is a continuing issue for the Python developers as well.
>>
>> John Roth
>>
>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

-- 
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
   * George Dinwiddie *                      http://blog.gdinwiddie.com
   Software Development                    http://www.idiacomputing.com
   Consultant and Coach                    http://www.agilemaryland.org
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------



------------------------------------

Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/testdrivendevelopment/

<*> Your email settings:
    Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/testdrivendevelopment/join
    (Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
    [email protected] 
    [email protected]

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    [email protected]

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.