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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
To: Artur Biesiadowski <abies@pg.gda.pl>
Cc: mauve <mauve-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: BitSet patch
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 10:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8790cq3epw.fsf@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Artur Biesiadowski's message of Sun, 21 Mar 1999 16:54:47 +0100

>>>>> "Artur" == Artur Biesiadowski <abies@pg.gda.pl> writes:

Artur> A bit better test now - it was possible for and() to just clear
Artur> a bitset and pass the test.

I checked this in.

Artur> BTW it is quite hard to write a good test without 'mutation
Artur> testing' - introducing explicit errors in tested code :)

Yeah.

Sometimes I add new test cases to test for specific bugs I find in my
code.  I encourage everybody to do this.  There's some chance that
different programmers will make similar mistakes.

Tom

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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
To: Artur Biesiadowski <abies@pg.gda.pl>
Cc: mauve <mauve-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: BitSet patch
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8790cq3epw.fsf@cygnus.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990401000000.QrnIgnz6D9-W1v7sYLk1DiXNeJAgLbSjh96FLqu5xhY@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36F51647.BC88D163@pg.gda.pl>

>>>>> "Artur" == Artur Biesiadowski <abies@pg.gda.pl> writes:

Artur> A bit better test now - it was possible for and() to just clear
Artur> a bitset and pass the test.

I checked this in.

Artur> BTW it is quite hard to write a good test without 'mutation
Artur> testing' - introducing explicit errors in tested code :)

Yeah.

Sometimes I add new test cases to test for specific bugs I find in my
code.  I encourage everybody to do this.  There's some chance that
different programmers will make similar mistakes.

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~1999-03-21 10:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-03-21  9:46 Artur Biesiadowski
1999-03-21 10:00 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
1999-04-01  0:00   ` Tom Tromey
1999-04-01  0:00 ` Artur Biesiadowski

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