Re: Testing a class which utilizes randomness

Mark Levison <[email protected]> Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:23:49 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.test-driven-development
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> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 2:29 AM, Nikola Novak <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> Hello!
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>> I'm new to TDD and this group. For practice, I started a simple project
>> and now I want to create a list of random strings, but such that no two
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> Ever?  Is that even possible?
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Desirable? - by definition - randomness can and should occasionally
duplicate something. Testing a random number generator is very hard.

Cheers
Mark
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