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Re: Debian coding style?




Stephen Zander <gibreel@pobox.com> writes:
>
>    >> Remember that the person who is most qualified to test any
>    >> piece of code is the person who wrote it.
>
>    Wichert> I can argue about that. But I won't :)
>
>I can & I will. :)
>
>The person who wrote the code is almost always the *least* qualified
>person to test it.

Thorough testing needs several viewpoints.  The original programmer
may be the best one to single-step through the code, checking for
things that differ from his expectations, or things which could
cause trouble given other data.

		   - Jim Van Zandt


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