Score one for unit testing.

From	Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Score one for unit testing.
Date	2014-01-02 17:53 -0500
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID	<roy-88539A.17532802012014@news.panix.com> (permalink)

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We've got a test that's been running fine ever since it was written a 
month or so ago.  Now, it's failing intermittently on our CI (continuous 
integration) box, so I took a look.

It turns out it's a stupid test because it depends on pre-existing data 
in the database.  But, the win is that while looking at the code to 
figure out why this was failing, I noticed a completely unrelated bug in 
the production code.

See, unit testing helps find bugs :-)

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Score one for unit testing. Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-02 17:53 -0500
  Re: Score one for unit testing. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 10:00 +1100

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