[Tutor] More on unit testing - tests for external data...

[Wayne Werner]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>wrote:

>
> Remember, in testing you are not trying to prove it works but rather to
> demonstrate that it doesn't!
>

So in that way it's a bit like the the scientific method (or exactly like)?
You create a hypothesis and design tests to invalidate your hypothesis...
and if they fail to invalidate you may have a valid hypothesis. Simply
replace hypothesis with program and you get the testing procedure?

-Wayne


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