- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 23:02:56 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Orion Adrian wrote: > > Do we seriously believe that someone who is writing a browser, a > fairly difficult piece of software to write, will limit themselves to > the examples and not test against the test suite? Oh, yes. Definitely. Softwre engineers are some of the laziest people I've ever met. > Also shouldn't all examples be also worthy of testing assuming the > hypothetical full linked version were valid? No, examples in general make very poor testcases. Testcases have pass conditions. Examples are usually illustrative. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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