[Tutor] Unit testing: Just the API or internal use only methods, too?

[Alan Gauld]

On 16/07/2019 23:41, boB Stepp wrote:

> essentially said that I should be testing the public interface to my
> classes, but not the methods only used internally by the class and not
> meant to be publicly accessible.  

I suspect he meant that you should publish the tests for the API
but not necessarily for the internal/private methods.

You should definitely test all code you write, but how formally
you test the private stuff is up to you. But publishing the
public API tests allows clients to run them too.


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