Re: Fwd: Fwd: Assume

Hi Cliff, 

> > 
> > Hi Cliff,
> > 
> > > [cliff] but wouldn't you want to know the dataset that 
> caused your 
> > > test to not run or not be built.  Maybe in a report or something, 
> > > but I think I'd like to have some way of knowing that.
> > 
> > If it's a dataset, probably yes. But Kelly was giving an 
> example where 
> > a particular random number was not in the set of values for 
> which the 
> > test was designed. Hence, we can't have a test at all. I'd 
> just keep 
> > generating till I had enough in that case.
> > 
> > Charlie
> 
> [cliff] How would the test know the difference?

If you never create a test for the bad value, then
it never exists, never gets run and doesn't have 
to know anything. :-)

That's the difference between a test that handles
multiple data items and a dataset that generates
multiple tests.

Charlie 



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