[Python-ideas] ABC: what about the method arguments ?

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> How would an automatic check function solve anything, if you don't test
> that the class does what is expected?
>

Automated checks are a good way to help ensure that your test coverage is
good.  If the automated check fails and all the other tests pass, it means
there's been an oversight in both functionality and tests.

This isn't a purely theoretical concern.  See Issues 9212 and 9213 for cases
where a class purported to support an ABC but wasn't actually supplying all
the methods.

-- 
Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D.
President, Stutzbach Enterprises, LLC <http://stutzbachenterprises.com/>
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