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Re: Calling deprecated methods

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From	Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject	Re: Calling deprecated methods
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On 12/12/2017 5:41 PM, Kiwi User wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 13:33:06 -0800, Eric Douglas wrote:
> 
>> I currently work for a small business, so not a lot of time to waste
>> writing tests that can guarantee every enhancement won't break any
>> existing code much less comment blocks, when we have a dozen big
>> enhancement requests and 2 developers.
>>
> If a class is largely getters and setters and its other methods for
> linear things, then you're right.

     ... or mostly right.  A setter that is supposed to enforce a
restriction like "the value must be strictly positive" should be
tested to ensure that it does in fact throw the proper exception.
Similarly for setters with state dependencies like "the value can
be changed at will before the doItNowBabe() method is called, but
cannot be changed thereafter."

> [... good advice about test harnesses ...]
> Been there, done that, got the benefits.

     Ditto, seconded, and Aayy-men!

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Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-12-12 08:09 -0800
  Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2017-12-12 16:31 +0000
    Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-12-12 10:24 -0800
      Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2017-12-12 20:05 +0000
        Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-12-12 15:41 -0500
          Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2017-12-12 21:04 +0000
            Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-12-12 13:33 -0800
              Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2017-12-12 22:41 +0000
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-12-12 17:57 -0500
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-12-13 04:51 -0800
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-12-13 08:21 -0500
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-12-13 05:40 -0800
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2017-12-13 15:19 +0000
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-12-13 07:57 -0800
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2017-12-13 17:30 +0000

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