On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:55:59 pm Thomas Lotze wrote:
I'm surprised nobody (that I've noticed) has brought up the point yet that test code is a lot easier to read if it makes positive assertions.
Please don't claim that your subjective opinion is an objective fact.
When reading failure conditions, one has to constantly invert them in order to deduce the behaviour that is tested.
You might have to. Don't assume that everyone else has your difficulty.
failUnless and friends aren't better either IMO since while they do work with positive assertions, the method names themselves are doubly negative. assert* methods are so much more straightforward to comprehend.
Maybe for you. That's not a human universal. Please don't assume that your favourite bike-shed colour must be the favourite colour of everyone else too. -- Steven