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Re: [SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.2.9-52-g288a108



Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:

>> It won't be if we really start testing something rather than just
>> being sure that lintian returns a non-zero exit status, like being
>> sure that the right files are created and that directories in the lab
>> are removed properly.

> Maybe it is time to move that part of the code into a module? it would
> be easier to test it that way (not that I dislike black-box testing,
> but in this case it would be better to test it from the ground).

Yeah, that would be great.

> By the way, although I guess you have already read about TDD, I have
> found Kent Beck's "Test-driven development - by example" a very nice
> reading; it changed my POV.

I'll keep an eye out for that.  I've read little bits here and there,
but don't follow the whole methodology as much as I really should.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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