One big benefit of the way the Test-modules do the testing, is that the tests are external to your scripts/modules. That way you can totally rewrite your code and have it checked by the same test-suite to see that a given input still produces the same output.

Even better is that you can make the test-suite before you write your code (of course you must know what output follows from what input) and have your code validated en route.

An interesting presentation of this "Extreme Programming" concept can be found here (warning: off site PDF-file)

CountZero

"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

In reply to Re: What is wrong with testing like a noob by CountZero
in thread What is wrong with testing like a noob by dimar

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