John Zabroski wrote:
5. I have a hard time understanding statements like "The difficulties in unit testing OO code is coaxing objects into the correct state to test a particular property."
This is my direct experience of inheriting code written by others without any tests and trying to add tests before doing more serious work on extending and enhancing the code base.
Difficulty in unit testing OO code is best documented in Robert Binder's tome [1],
I'm sure thats a fine book for testing OO code. I'm trying to avoid OO code as much as possible :-). My main point was that testing pure functions is easy and obvious in comparison to test objects with internal state. Cheers, Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/