Re: Blog: Four Ways to test Expected Exceptions

"Kelly Anderson" <[email protected]> Wed, 6 Aug 2008 14:03:56 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.dotnet.nunit.user
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On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Brad Stiles <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Comments?
>
> After some initial apathy ("skepticism" is really too strong to describe
> what I felt), I've pretty much started using the constraint methods
> exclusively over the Assert syntax, sometimes even changing old test
> code when I need to change what it's testing.  It just makes my code so
> much easier to read and parse.  One other developer on my team, for whom
> "skepticism" wasn't strong *enough*, has also switched after really
> looking at the resulting test code, and output. :)

Hi Brad,

  My initial feelings about constraint methods was openly hostile,
even in out here in public. I have also come to the conclusion now
that they are a good thing. It DOES take some getting used to for
sure. :-)

-Kelly

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