The other one of us believes that it makes sense for the output of some tests to require a bit of eyeballing, that tests should be run less frequently and that the effort of making everything a boolean pass/fail isn't worth it.

I'm in total agreement with dws. I find it's almost always better to automate your tests. Requiring human intervention means that it takes longer to run the tests. If it takes longer to run the tests they tend to get run less often. If your tests are run less often bugs creep in.

In my experience the extra time spent dealing with bugs and eyeballing the test results will be much more than the time it would take to automate the tests.

In reply to Re: Test output: Interpret or pass/fail by adrianh
in thread Test output: Interpret or pass/fail by mandog

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